[LightDM] Multiple sessions on a single seat

[Robert Ancell]

Hi Diego,

This was never intended to work that way. What is the reason to have
multiple sessions start automatically instead of just switching to them on
demand?

--Robert

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 at 12:56 Diego Alvarez <dpe.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm having some trouble with a LightDM configuration I want to set-up, so
> maybe someone here knows how to do this.
> What I want to do is, when booting, have multiple sessions running at on
> different VTs on a single seat. I mean, only one monitor/keyboard but have
> one user logged in on VT7 and another user on VT8 using another DE and such.
> This was possible on older versions of LightDM, before integrating
> logind's seat detection. I just used the [Seat:x] configuration in
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and it did exactly what I wanted.
> Problem is that now LightDM uses logind to handle detecting the seats, but
> it seems to ignore the fact one may want to run multiple sessions with one
> seat only. Configuration for the first session works fine, but I can no
> longer tell LightDM to start other X sessions on another VT.
> I can use 'dm-tool' to start another session, but I cannot make it so
> LightDM does that automatically on startup nor configure the new session
> (i.e. autologin, which greeter to use, etc).
> Does anyone know how I can make this set up work?
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