On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 2:44 AM Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net> wrote:
I could *swear* I'd seen this was possible, but....
Already running lightdm->fvwm on vt7 (my usual setup).
I would like to experiment with another windowmananger without having to drop my normal setup. I *thought* it was something like
1. Get into another vt, log in. 2. `startx -- :1`
However when I tried that it trashed the X session on vt7.
What exactly does "trashed the X session" mean?
Or do I need to reformulate this as "run multiple displaymanager on multiple VTs"?
You cannot run multiple display managers (at least, without jumping through the hoops), but you can run multiple desktop environments (graphical user sessions) for different users.
If so, how does one do that on SuSE?
SuSE has not existed for years. So whatever worked in SuSE most likely does not with anymore in (open)SUSE.
FWIW: PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.2"
I suspect not many users are still using this version now.