Two xserver sessions with KDE Plasma on two different consoles with two different users

pbek · February 1, 2024, 7:45am

Currently, I’ve enabled KDE Plasma with:

pbek/nixcfg/blob/36ef2d8ed9cf6e75d9eb3fd41cd7e48b0bf0114b/modules/mixins/desktop-common.nix#L16-L22


      
          # Enable the X11 windowing system.
          services.xserver.enable = true;
          
          
# Enable the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
          # https://nixos.wiki/wiki/KDE
          services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
          services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;

I wonder if it’s possible to run two xserver sessions with KDE Plasma on two different consoles with two different users, so I can switch between them with e.g. Ctrl + Alt + F1 and Ctrl + Alt + F2.

pbek · March 26, 2024, 12:20pm

I’d still love to be able to do that, would save me from using a NixOS VM inside NixOS (which is painful because NixOS updates are IO and CPU heavy).

pbek · March 27, 2024, 7:38am

Oh, I found out that what I want is just a feature of the KDE Plasma Login screen. You can switch user, then you get a 2nd session.