Potential misreporting of xmethod

[Wizardcrying]

I started a Unity chroot using -X xorg with both targets installed. I checked back in the terminal on CrOS and this is what showed.

[X.org X server inital output]
(++) Log file: "/tmp/Xorg.crouton.1.log", Time: Wed Apr 12 20:17:45 2017
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.
crouton: version 1-20170315143304~master:95589555
release: xenial
architecture: amd64
(!!!) xmethod: xiwi (!!!)
targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,unity
host: version 9334.33.0 (Official Build) beta-channel sentry 
kernel: Linux localhost 3.18.0-13958-g2014267 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 21:58:15 PDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
[other warnings]

I'm not quite sure of whether or not it's time to panic. I have the crouton extension in the host and connected, which might matter.

[DennisLfromGA]

@Wizardcrying,

targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,unity

croutonversion reports what 'targets' you specify on the installation command line (-t ...). Since you explicitly specified xiwi as the first target it becomes the default xmethod, hence -

(!!!) xmethod: xiwi (!!!)

I'm not quite sure of whether or not it's time to panic.

Please don't panic, it's WAI (works as intended) behavior. ;-)

I have the crouton extension in the host and connected, which might matter.

When using xiwi you need the 'crouton integration' extension connected, that's a good thing.

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Since you have installed both xmethods (that's what I always do), you can launch your desktop using either in a number of ways with something like:

• sudo startunity (that will launch in a window via 'xiwi', the default)

• sudo startunity -X xiwi-fullscreen (that will launch fullscreen via 'xiwi')

• sudo startunity -X xiwi-tab (that will launch in a browser tab via 'xiwi' - my favorite)

• sudo startunity -X xorg (that will launch in a separate screen via 'xorg')

Hope this helps, -DennisL

[Wizardcrying]

Thanks, @DennisLfromGA. If the default xmethod is to be displayed and is known to be displayed in that case, then I assume there is no problem.