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dencrypt

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 6

Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

Hey, anybody knows if this is possible in anyway or have a workaround for this particular problem. I was trying with creating two X-sessions but didn't get that to work very well. (The system froze)
Seems windowzy to always need to logout every time my girl or friends need an account. I do know it's not a builtin feature but there's got to be a solution for this right?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

How do you log in? What DM do you use?

dencrypt

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 6

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

I actually use the Entrance DM (I wanted the complete E19-experience, lol), but if any other would give me the feature of using multiple users in Enlightenment, any would do.

mataraty

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Registered: 2011-05-24

Posts: 25

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

Did you already tried to open a new tty and just type:

 startx -- :1

The new session should than normaly open in tty8 (ctrl-alt-F8)

Not exactly what you are looking for but perhaps a good workaround.

Last edited by mataraty (2015-07-13 10:19:19)

Chazza

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

I think you would probably be better off using LightDM - it's desktop independent and has full support for user switching. The Enlightenment wiki page does warn that Entrance is "highly experimental".

dencrypt

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 6

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

That might be an option. Then I might be able to put a scriptfile somewhere which sends the switch-user command to light-dm since the function is not there in enlightenment.

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

If you want a menu entry, you could accomplish it using a .desktop file in /usr/local/share/applications:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Switch User
Comment=Switch to a different user session
Exec=/usr/bin/dm-tool switch-to-greeter
Type=Application
Terminal=False
StartupNotify=False
Categories=System;

dencrypt

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 6

Re: Switch User for Enlightenment (E19)

Thanks!