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Do you know if it's possible to run a second session in a window? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not much hoepful, but... just in case :)

I would like to be able to start a second session in a window of my current one (I mean a second session where I log in as a different user, similar to what happens with the various ctrl+alt+Fx, but starting a graphical session rather than a console one).

Do you know of some software that lets me do it?

Can I somehow run a KVM using my host disk as a the disk for the guest VM (and without breaking stuff)?

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Totally possible. It'll work best with Wayland thanks to nested compositor support, whereas on Xorg you'd need to use Xephyr which doesn't do hardware acceleration.

# Give the other user access to your Wayland socket
setfacl -m u:otheruser:rx $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
setfacl -m u:otheruser:rwx $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-0

# Open a session as the other user (note the trailing @, it's there to login in to the local machine)
sudo machinectl login otheruser@

# Start your DE!
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=/run/user/$(id -u yourmainuser)/wayland-0 startplasma-wayland

And tada! Nested Wayland session

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This looks so neat, I screenshot for future reference if I wanted to recreate this, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can also bookmark comments on Lemmy, and copy the comment URL and store that in (synced) browser bookmarks!

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