display manager that supports multiple X servers

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin moin

Have you looked at x11/sddm [1] [2]


mfg Tobias

[1] https://www.freshports.org/x11/sddm/
[2] https://github.com/sddm/sddm

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 20:40, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> Now that kdm is gone I need to find a replacement for a feature that I
> want to
> use on some systems.  Since switching users in KDE never worked for me
> (either
> in KDE 4 or now), I used to start several X servers, each on its own VT,
> each
> with a greeter.  One user could log in on VT9 and another on VT10, etc.
> They
> could not work at the same time, of course.  But they could time share the
> computer.  This setup was easy with kdm.
>
> Now, I have looked at several still supported DM-s and none of them seems
> to
> support that feature.  Various Linux documentation talks a lot of
> multi-seat and
> I think that what I want is a simpler subset of the multi-seat.  But it
> seems
> all mainstream DMs support multi-seat only via Linux / systemd based
> infrastructure like logind / loginctl etc.  I could not find a way to
> explicitly
> configure multiple X servers on multiple VTs.
>
> I guess that I should be able to achieve what I want with xdm and
> /etc/ttys, but
> xdm is so ugly...
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>
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