Hi Robert, I have just followed steps 1 to 15 and visually I can confirm A to E exactly as you have written. I now have two X servers running:
$ ps ax|grep X 2153 tty7 Ss+ 0:13 /usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none 3992 tty8 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/X :1 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -nolisten tcp vt8 -novtswitch I can post the log if you like. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1005813 Title: Lightdm doesn't terminate alternate session login Status in Light Display Manager: Incomplete Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Choosing "Switch to different user" in Ubuntu gives you another login screen, which is very nice and useful. However after using that alternate session, lightdm keeps the X server and greeter for that alternate session open and running. Gdm, on the contrary, terminates the X server for the alternate session when you log out of it. This behaviour does make a difference when you run Ubuntu on a laptop on battery. Using the alternate login just once after boot (and ending the session again) initiates a constant cpu load of 1-2% (on my laptop). Doesn't sound much. But compared to "idle" without the second X server and greeter, this is an increase of about 75%. I admit that I didn't have the time to keep the laptop running idlely und doing some real battery measurements. But with a laptop on battery, you should use any possibility to save energy. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1005813/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
