#1 2017-10-01 14:31:44

martix

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Registered: 2016-02-19

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What is the background of geany creating a pseudo logged-in user?

There is the command

top -d 1

which shows among others processes in use, memory in use and also: Number of users.

I was surprised - while being the only user logged in - it showed: 2 users.

Used searx for a bit more command line magic:

w -s

Hmm, there were indeed two: One tty "/usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openbox-autostart OPENBOX" and one pts "/bin/bash".

In the end it turned out that the reason for this was geany: If it's open, it looks like this. If it's closed, the second one (pts) disappears. Is it something about creating a pseudo terminal device? And why is it necessary?

If I'm not mistaken, those pts "logins" are also showed by the command last (last USERNAME).

vinzv

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Re: What is the background of geany creating a pseudo logged-in user?

Geany has an internal terminal. Maybe it's related to that?
You could try deactivating it at Settings -> Common -> Load VTE (not sure if these points are named exactly like that in EN) and check again for the pts "login".