On 2019-08-06, Ed <ed-deb...@s5h.net> wrote: > On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: >> > >> > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users >> > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, >> > whilst I go and make dinner I want to allow someone else to sit here, >> > without having to shut applications down? >> >> Some login managers have the "switch user" feature. > > Does that feature take the user back to the login screen without leaving > the applications running? >
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be logged in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal requesting that the current session be locked and then will initiate a switch to LightDM's greeter, allowing a new user to log in to the system. $ dm-tool switch-to-greeter Looks promising. -- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan