<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Diego,<br><br></div>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?<br><br></div>--Robert<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 at 12:56 Diego Alvarez <<a href="mailto:dpe.alvarez@gmail.com">dpe.alvarez@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" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Hello folks,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I'm having some trouble with a LightDM configuration I want to set-up, so maybe someone here knows how to do this.<br class="gmail_msg">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.<br class="gmail_msg"></div><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg">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.</span><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg">I can use </span><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg">'dm-tool' to </span><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg"><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg">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).</span></span><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg"></span><br class="gmail_msg"></div>Does anyone know how I can make this set up work?<br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody gmail_msg"></span></div></div>
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