On 2023-05-15 21:04, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Tue, May 16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
For example, I am using XFCE. I find the place in the menu to exit the session, but instead, I choose "switch user". I can then login with another user, and another desktop if I wish. Once the second user is started, I can switch back and forth by pressing [Ctrl][Alt][F7] or [Ctrl][Alt][F8]. I could start another one on [Ctrl][Alt][F9]. I can exit any one, and get the login prompt in that space instead.
Easy peasy.
(Details may vary per desktop and display manager.)
Yes, well.... FVWM doesn't have this (at least, my setup doesn't...) Ironically, I'm doing this exercise to see how well I can imitate my fvwm setup with XFCE4....
Check the RootMenu. The website says restart/quit FVWM is in there, so switch user should probably be there as well.
The display manager takes care of things like assigning control of sound or the cdrom tray to the user whose desktop has the focus, who is assumed to have the chair.
Warning: switching to same user, different desktop, may or may not work right or at all.
So when you say the "switch user" functionality lets you chose not only a different user with with which to log in, it gives you a choice of "desktop", where "desktop" corresponds to a different VT (other than VT7) on which it will run?
Different user, yes. Different terminal, not the way you are thinking about it. You have no choice which terminal will be used. A new terminal will be created (VT8), and the login manager will be started in that. This session is run as a new session, all handled by the system, so unless you log in as the same user, they will run completely independently of each other.