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Subject: Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx
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On 8/30/18 1:32 AM, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-08-29, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>> On 8/29/18 2:17 PM, William Unruh wrote:
>>> On 2018-08-29, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> From an unlocked plasma session, click on the start menu, select "Leave"
>>>> and from there "Switch User".
>>>
>>> Sorry, no such option. There are 4 options, (logout, suspend, reboot,
>>> poweroff), and no switch user.
>>
>> Then you disabled something, as this been default for all distributions
>> I have run with KDE, in older versions it has been linked to the power
>> management service.
>>
>>
>>> Mageia 6, sddm-0.14.0,
>>> or 
>>>>
>>>> How it looks in sddm I'm not sure as I'm still using KDM and in the
>>>> process of converting my multi seat configuration to LightDM, but
>>>> nowadays even sddm has support for multi seated setup.
>>
>> Just configure your ssdm to start two seats instead of just one, then
>> you can decide she gets the first one and you take the other one, but of
>> course then you won't have this to whine about ;)
> 
> How do you tell sddm to start two seats? I have never seen that option.

You have a starting point on this page (see bottom):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multiseat

It's not a simple as it used to be with KDM, you need to play with udev
rules and logind (if you use the systemd).

LightDM do have better support for multi-seat than sddm.

-- 

 //Aho