On Jo, 06 nov 14, 03:58:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I want to be able to log on multiple times, simultaneously, to the same > machine, with the same physical keyboard and boutse and screen, but with > different user ids. So that when I'm logged in as myself, and my friend > comes by who wants to use the machine for a minute, I can let him log in > as another, independent user, without me having to log out first. This is usually called "switch user". A quick web search seems to indicate lightdm might be able to support it, but can't help any further. As far as I understand gdm+Gnome should be able to do it.
A different method to achieve the same thing would be to use Ctrl-Alt-Fx
to switch to a console, login and start another X instance with
startx -- :1
This has the advantage of being *dm independent.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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