Simple question, but I'm having a hard time finding a straight answer. I have a stock Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop install, and when I finally see the login screen (lightdm) at the end of the boot process, I can drop to a tty, login as a non-root user (let's call it 'user1') and then start a second X session on vt8 with the command. It works as expected and launches Unity on vt8. Well... what I'd like to do is automate that process so that when the machine boots, it automatically launches that second X session on vt8 as user1 without any actual user intervention. Additionally, I need x11vnc to launch immediately thereafter to make the X session available remotely (x11vnc is easy to set up -- the question is more about how/where to best invoke x11vnc once the second X session is automatically launching on display :1).Code:startx -- :1 vt8
I've tried using the hooks feature as mentioned in the lightdm.conf file, but I couldn't get it to work -- maybe I didn't set it up right. Any thoughts, hints, suggestions, etc would be appreciated.
Thanks all!
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