the puppies are now big enough to reach the keyboard, and thereby evoke some interesting new revelations/curiosities. they must have hit capslock. i typed xt but got XT, an alias for starting X and then with WINDOW_MANAGER=twm in the environment starting gnome-session. not so many years ago when i made that alias it would start a new X session in a new virtual terminal. today it seems it causes the current X session to disappear for awhile, and for my console to participate in multiple realities. there i was looking at the xenial/systemd messages leftover from bootup, and a getty login invitation. i tried all the VTs. no X session. so i selected tty3 and logged in. and (re)invoked tmux. imagine my surprise as i stare at the tmux window and see an alternate reality version of what just transpired. when i typed XT, X had immediately disappeared as i just described. now in front of me is the tmux window where i'd typed XT, and the output i hadn't had a chance to see: $ XT trying :0 trying :1 [1] 22536 [1]+ Exit 1 X -noreset -dpi 81 :$x 2>> /tmp/X$x.$$.err [1] 22538 -bash: WINDOW_MANAGER=twm: command not found [1]+ Exit 127 DISPLAY=:$x "$@" ok whatever...but wait, what's next? next i see my username, password, and tmux invocation, as if entered as commands in this (tmux) window! my username, happens also to be an alias, and i see the output from invoking it. my password...command not found. tb (the alias i used to invoke tmux)...[detached (from session 0)] !!WTF?? of course i was already up late and was just about to shutdown and go to bed, but waait, can't shutdown now, this is too bizarre and curious! so i just leave it on, grab my phone, connect via ssh, re-invoke tmux, and compose a bit in vim. and drop off to sleep. well in the morning, wake up the screen, and voila, there's my old X session, i guess it was tired too, just needed a good night's sleep...(or time to catchup with new-version-of-firefox megabloat induced megathrashing) but...what? in the xterm where i'd originally invoked tmux, i see [detached (from session 0)] (ok, no surprise there) followed by all the keystrokes i'd entered while composing in vim, switching amongst tmux windows, entering commands, et al, as if all also entered as commands at the bash prompt, with mostly command not found responses, in this (detached!) xterm! !!WTF?? i still haven't shut down, and i've kept that xterm, nothing further is appearing in it, or the voodoo tmux window either, and things are working fine now...! i guess voodoo only happens late at night...but the bizarre evidence is still here... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180204/5a8f93c5/attachment.html>