display manager that supports multiple X servers

[Andriy Gapon]

On 09/07/2019 22:48, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> 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

sddm was the first one I installed after upgrading from kde4.  I tried to
configure it my way, but I couldn't find out how to do it.

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