<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Dave,<br><br></div>LightDM only allows one log in per user. So making a second user is the appropriate workaround. Ideally we'd allow a remote login to remotely control the existing session but the technology for that is not really there.<br><br></div>--Robert<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 at 03:42 Dave Flogeras <<a href="mailto:dflogeras2@gmail.com">dflogeras2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi, I am upgrading from kde4 to plasma5 on Gentoo, and since sddm doesn't support XDMCP I am trying lightdm. I use XDMCP so that I can log in remotely through the display manager over VNC/xinetd.<br><br></div>On this machine I usually leave myself logged in locally, but from time to time I need to log in over VNC when I am not home. KDM allowed me to log in to my account, and usually I'd select a lighter DM (like LXDE/LXQT) both to save bandwidth (my KDE desktop is more 'busy') and to also not confuse KDE by logging in twice as the same user.<br><br></div>If I try to do this with lightdm, when I select my user, it only offers me the choice to "Unlock" which tries to shanghai my current local session. I cannot start a new session. Is there a way to work around this? Of course I can create another user, or remotely tell plasma to log me out via something like qdbus, but I'd prefer not to do either if I can help it.<br><br></div>Thanks<br></div>Dave<br></div>
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