Istvan Gabor composed on 2015-05-11 19:50 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
Ruben composed on 2015-05-10 18:42 (UTC-0400):
Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
IIRC GDM does not allow two simultaneous sessions by the same user
that is not good.
I wouldn't expect otherwise. Seems to me like it would be a recipe for ongoing personal settings data save collisions if any DM facilitated it, unless *maybe* the 2nd were a different session type, e.g. Gnome vs. KDE or XFCE.
First, this is not a good explanation for why parallel sessions should not / are not allowed. Unix/linux systems have allowed multiple sessions for ages, and it was/is not a problem for regular shell logins. Why should it be different for graphical logins?
Because of the way automatic saving of settings and session restore works, or not, such as window positions, window sizes, open apps. Simultaeous text sessions on vttys are naturally simpler, offering less opportunity to be first or last in a saving race. How much developer testing of simultaneous sessions do you think occurs, or even thought that anyone ever does it? IMO, somewhere between little and none. I'm guessing minimal, but a reason why KDE retired some of the automagic KDE3 featured, and invented activities, isolating opportunities for clashing.
Second, I never had any problem with using multiple sessions with KDE3.
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