X doesn't work well with terminal switching

[dchmelik]

I ran X/NsCDE on second terminal.

    xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.NsCDE -- /usr/bin/X :1

As NsCDE graphics were starting, I temporarily switched back to XFCE. I switched back to NsCDE and only saw the command I'd given to start it.

[NsCDE]

Hi @dchmelik

Sorry for waiting on reply, summer vacation ...

Strange, but this most probably doesn't have anything with fvwm or NsCDE, but with X/Xorg setup. Try to start something different (mwm, kwin, i3 ...) on :1 and try this switching while it starts. Most probably you will get the same result. OTOH, maybe you didn't switched to the right virtual console. Maybe it is on Alt+F8 or F9 ...

[NsCDE]

Hi @dchmelik

Are you sure this has anything to do with NsCDE? I'm not as I commented. Can we close this, or there is still something to try?

[dchmelik]

Certainly a X/NsCDE bug (at least your X server or how you use it). There are no 'right & wrong' consoles for such cases except the one using for specific software; I switched to another (which has to work) and switched to the NsCDE one: if it was 'wrong', then how would've I seen it halted?! Are you saying I saw NsCDE exit on a console it wasn't run on--how would that even be possible--what are you talking about?! Usually when I switch from XFCE & KDE and back (on :0) those work fine (only secondary/smaller projects on ':1' like NsCDE sometimes don't). I have many things to work on but if you can tell me how to start NsCDE and get whatever log while I'm still running XFCE on another terminal, I will get to it eventually.

[NsCDE]

Hi @dchmelik

While in NsCDE, you can go to Exit on Front Panel, choose X Window System Failsafe (xterm). In the upper left corner of the screen, plain bare xterm window will appear, and FVWM with NsCDE will be gone. Then, run "nscde" or /path/to/nscde manually. You will see all output in this console. Then try switching, back and forth as you usually do and like, and see diagnostic output on xterm.

OTOH, maybe just some timeout before xinit commands you have for :0, :1, :2 ... whould do the job.

P. S.
I must admit that I'm not sure what you are doing, and what you have in your xinitrc.NsCDE ... was this file created by you, or some distro packed it as such?