Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> 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.
>
> A different method to achieve the same thing would be to use Ctrl-Alt-Fx
> to switch to a console, login and start another X instance with
>
> startx -- :1
You don't even need the "-- :1" any more. startx is now smart enough
to find an unused display on its own.
Eric
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