I'm experimenting with i3. My biggest gripe now is that I can't "switch user" from my i3 session to another one, or to let another user use my machine without them accessing mine. I've been told that lightdm has dm-tool which can achieve this from within i3, but I can't find anything with mdm.
I tried installing lightdm, but that wouldn't show the boot screen, and had to revert back to mdm.
Any thoughts?
Session switching while using i3wm
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Re: Session switching while using i3wm
All you need do here is switch over to a different TTY, that way they can log in and do their thing without disturbing your session. It's not as pretty, but it's convenient. Switching TTYs is as easy as Ctrl + Alt + F*, where * is 1-7.
Ah crap, old post. Wow, was so high up on the thread list! Oh well, maybe this'll help someone who comes across this via search engines.
Ah crap, old post. Wow, was so high up on the thread list! Oh well, maybe this'll help someone who comes across this via search engines.
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