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Peter.O
Asked: 2010-11-26 02:58:00 +0800 CST

How to run multiple user X sessions on the same computer, at the same time?

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I want to have more than one user logged on at the same time, on the same computer.

Each user should have a full X session.

It is easy enough to log in to multiple concurrent non-X Linux terminals, but I want the X factor.

Maybe I've missed something, but I only see a Main Menu option to Log out of the current user, and nothing for Switch User.

Is there a simple way to do this?

xorg session users

3 Answers

  1. With first X session running login as user you want to use and run in an xterm or at a console prompt:

    xinit -- :1

    or

    startx -- :1
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  2. If you want multiple users to use Keyboards/Mouse then that is multiseatX.See this documentation

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  3. Best Answer

    If you are using Gnome:

    Try running gdmflexiserver, it will launch a new GDM session. You can switch between them using Ctrl+Alt+F{8..12}.

    Take note though that logging in with the same user twice is a bad idea.

    Also, (in Lucid, at least) you can switch users by clicking the Power button in top-right corner and then selecting a user name. alt text

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