Q: starting second graphical interface at boot?

[D. R. Evans]

Felix Miata said the following at 11/05/2013 08:34 AM :
> On 2013-11-05 07:30 (GMT-0700) D. R. Evans composed:
> 
>>>>> Normally, once booting is completed, one has a graphical interface with a
>>>>> login screen (created, I think, by lightdm) on terminal #7.
> 
>>>>> How do I create, at boot time, another login screen on terminal #8?
> 
>> The lack of responses seems to suggest that perhaps this wasn't the right
>> place to ask my question. Can someone please point me towards some other
>> Kubuntu-savvy arena where someone might know the answer?
> 
> Maybe no answer because most people who want to run a second X instance don't 
> use a login manager to do it. Instead, they login on a vtty, then:
> 
> 	startx -- :1
> 

At least on my system, that results in a second instance of KDE, which creates
horrible conflicts and is basically unusable. I'm not sure how anyone would
avoid said conflicts; but in any case I have no desire to run a second
instance of KDE (indeed, I can't imagine why one would want to do so, but
since you say that that's what people want to do then there must be a good
reason).

Rather, I explicitly want to be able to choose from a number of different
desktop environments on the second graphical terminal, which is why I need the
window manager.

> to start one on tty9. In well over 10 years using KDE, I don't recall ever 
> seeing instructions how to get a second KDM instance configured or started.
> 

By my understanding (which may well be faulty), Kubuntu doesn't use kdm; so
this would not, by definition, be a second KDM instance.

I would still appreciate a pointer to somewhere where there may be people who
can provide an answer to my question.

  Doc

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