On 09/12/2024 09:54 AM, Hans wrote:
Didn't seem to work on 2 machines using different flavors of Debian.
Where is that documented so I can run a verifiable test?
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You are right. I rechecked this and it does not work correctly, because of a
bug in KDE. The
problem is, when starting another session, your former session is locking. But
you can not
unlock your session again, even with the correct password. I know about this
for more than 3
years and reported the bug long time ago. It is still not fied, but this is not
the point here.
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Apart from this, check it. I am running KDE (plasma) and you get the option "change
user"
from the K-menu.
Do this, and you start with the windowmanager you preset in your favourite
login manager (I
am using lightdm, but sddm or gdm might work as well, too).
When both windowmanagers are started, you can click every time to "change user"
and then
get the option, to chose, to which you want to switch.
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But as I said before: The former one has a locked screen and can not be
unlocked. I suppose,
this is a rights problem and the locking mechanism is set by root and rooit
must unloc it. But as
you want to unlock the screen as normal user, it will not work. Maybe sometimes
this will be
fixed. However, it does not harm the function of starting a second window
managers for another
user.
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If someone might also confirm of this little bug I mentioned here and knows
better than me, he
may just file a little bugreport to the developers of KDE. Maybe he also nows a
little
workaround???
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Hope this helps and makes things clearer.
But I use MATE.
I'm still interested in documentation of what is intended to happen.
Best regards
Hans
