[LightDM] Multiple sessions on a single seat

[Diego Alvarez]

Hey Robert,

Switching sessions on demand could work, but I'd be more convenient to have
both start on boot. Still, even if I do switch to them on demand I cannot
configure the new session, it always starts with the same parameters as the
first one or goes straight to the greeter with some sort of default
parameters that I cannot configure (depending on the method used to start
the new session).
I'd like to be able to for example, run a remote X session on a VT and a
local one on another, or set up a different DE on each VT.


On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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