Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm? -- SOLVED
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:15:51 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 11:14:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 03:58:13, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> >
>> > I want to be able to log on multiple times, simultaneously, to the
>> > same machine, with the same physical keyboard and boutse and screen,
>> > but with different user ids. So that when I'm logged in as myself,
>> > and my friend comes by who wants to use the machine for a minute, I
>> > can let him log in as another, independent user, without me having to
>> > log out first.
>>
>> This is usually called "switch user". A quick web search seems to
>> indicate lightdm might be able to support it, but can't help any
>> further. As far as I understand gdm+Gnome should be able to do it.
>
> xdm can do it. Adapting its approach:
>
> Go to "Seat configuration" in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Uncomment
> "[Seat:0]" and after this line put
>
> xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :0 vt07 -nolisten -tcp
>
> Add
>
> [Seat:1]
> xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :1 vt08 -nolisten -tcp
Yes, that worked beautifully. Thank you.
And I presume the same thing (but wiith a different config file) would
work if I were ever to switch to xdm.
-- hendrik
-- hendrik
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