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

[Bear Giles]

Ah, thanks. I've been using it to log out and overlooked that it also has a
'switch user' option.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:48 AM Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com> wrote:

> 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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