<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hey Robert,<br><br></div>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).<br></div>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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Robert Ancell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.ancell@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.ancell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 at 12:56 Diego Alvarez <<a href="mailto:dpe.alvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank">dpe.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg">Hello folks,<br class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_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="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_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="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"></div><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_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_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_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="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg">I can use </span><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg">'dm-tool' to </span><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_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_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"></span><br class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"></div>Does anyone know how I can make this set up work?<br class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"><span class="m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg"></span></div></div></div></div>
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