Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM?
>
> Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have
> many windows / apps open) and want to quickly report a bug. But
> before I do that, I want to check if the same happens in GNOME.
>
> xfswitch-plugin ("User switching" in Panel item menu), gets me
> to the GDM, but even if I choose my username and "Gnome classic"
> session, typing my password only brings me to the old Xfce4
> session (i.e. the "session" option in GDM is ignored).
>
> Thanks,
> aL.
>
> P.S.: While typing this, I realized that 90% of these cases can
> be solved by creating a new temporary user, which is way more
> correct way of bug reporting.  However, in some cases (hard to
> reproduce bugs, missing privileges to create user...) that might
> not be the solution.

From GDM? I don't know.

But you can shell out (via Ctrl-Alt-F1). login there, and start a new X 
session with something like

# startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :2

It's been so long that I don't remember if this is the exact correct 
syntax, but I believe it is. No guarantees as to what might happen 
though with two different DEs reading/writing to the same user account 
space.


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