[BRLTTY] [OT] GUI applications not working when on text console

Chevelle cstrobel at crosslink.net
Mon Apr 10 15:50:32 EDT 2023


     Are you running Mate?  Maybe it could be related to the bug where 
the Marco process becomes hung, but this is just a guess.


On 4/10/2023 11:20 AM, S. Massy wrote:
> Hello,
> Starting in the last two years or so, I have been seeing applications
> become unresponsive when I am not in X. A typical example is the spotify
> client. If I set music playing and then switch to a TTY, playback will
> eventually stop, usually when a new track would start. Furthermore,
> trying to talk to the client via D-BUS from the console will block until
> I switch back to X. All of this used to work fine until circa 2021. I
> assume this is linked to some kind of security policy but I'm not sure
> where to start. Has anybody any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> S.M.


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