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 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 > -- Andriy Gapon
