On 2023-05-15 20:17, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Mon, May 15, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2023-05-15 19:38, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Mon, May 15, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2023-05-15 18:13, Michael Fischer wrote:
But I don't want to log out of my VT7 X session and change window managers, I want to run 2 different WMs on 2 different VTs *at the same time*.
Create a test user, and switch user. The settings you choose for that user will not affect those for your ordinary user account.
Indeed.
I created the test user and logged in on VT2 as that user. But how to start the DM (or WM) on VT2 without crashing the DM+X running on VT7?
Closest I got was `sudo startx -- :1` (unless I want to setuid X, but I'd rather see if there's a way to get lightdm running on multiple VTs). Still, even doing this caused lightdm to log out the original user on VT7.
Thanks.
Michael In your application launcher, you should be able to find an option to switch user. Choose that, and you should find yourself in a new login screen for VT8, and the two sessions run independently of each other.
Assuming you're booting into multi-user target (runlevel 5), of course.
What is this "application launcher" of which you speak?
I'm doing CTRL-ALT-F2 -> console login prompt -> shell on VT2.
What I wonder is what next from that shell on VT2.
Michael
The application launcher should be on whatever task manager bar the current desktop is using. For example, in KDE by default it is on the extreme left of the task manager. When first booting your system, you boot into a login manager (eg sddm), right? You should be using the same, not logging into some text console, to log in as a second user.