<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Hi Diego,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">The only available configuration is the user and the session they use. So on startup you could run a boot script that calls dm-tool to start two sessions. What you can't do is autologin them both though, so you have to have them configured to log in without passwords to have them both start instead of just seeing a greeter. If you appropriately configured PAM you could get around this, but I suspect it would be a big hack.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">Note you can't configure different greeters for the same seat as there's only supposed to be one instance of it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">It's not clear to me the advantage of running two sessions on startup though - is this just to save time?<br></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">--Robert<br class="gmail_msg"></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 at 01:16 Diego Alvarez <<a href="mailto:dpe.alvarez@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">dpe.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" 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">Hey Robert,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></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 class="gmail_msg"></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 class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Robert Ancell <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:robert.ancell@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">robert.ancell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" 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">Hi Diego,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></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 class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>--Robert<br class="gmail_msg"></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627h5 gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 at 12:56 Diego Alvarez <<a href="mailto:dpe.alvarez@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">dpe.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627h5 gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><div class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><div class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg">Hello folks,<br class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg 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="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg 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="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"></div><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg 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_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg 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="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg">I can use </span><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg">'dm-tool' to </span><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg 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_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"></span><br class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"></div>Does anyone know how I can make this set up work?<br class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><div class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"><span class="m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843m_-5424383626372499631gmail-postbody m_895788491435437362m_-6046384233562644627m_-4605590086580248843gmail_msg gmail_msg"></span></div></div></div></div>
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