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From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:03:50 +0100
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Achim Gratz writes:

> Henry S. Thompson writes:
>> But if I come in to this machine via ssh (public key or password), the
>> virtual partitions are lost:
>
> That's how Windows is designed.  If you have no desktop session, then
> none of the associated setups are triggered.

Not to dismiss your point, but this happens even when there _is_ a
desktop session.  Indeed the material showing the problem in my previous
post came from doing

  > [show working stuff from desktop session]
  > ssh localhost
  > [show failing stuff from ssh session]

That's what really baffled me.

ht
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