[lug] Two (or more) separate X logins on different virtual terminals?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/13/18 6:51 AM, Bear Giles wrote:
> This is one of those questions where any answer on google is buried 
> under countless similar, but unrelated answers and the few on-point are 
> a decade old. Sigh.
> 
> With the gnome gdm is it possible to have separate X logins on different 
> virtual terminals? The specific idea is to set up my work laptop so that 
> VT-1 is used for my work and VT-2 is used for personal stuff. I'm not 
> doing a lot of personal stuff on it but chrome tabs tend to reproduce 
> like rabbits without wolves and using different desktops and chrome 
> profiles isn't working out as I hoped. I really wish chrome kept track 
> of which gnome screen a window was on when you shutdown and relaunch - 
> it would save so much effort.
> 
> I think I might have set this up before but it was a very long time ago.

Pretty much every display manager these days has a "login as new 
user"/"switch user" or similar these days which does this.  You're going 
to need a different user for work and personal stuff for this to work as 
well.


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