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I am using Lubuntu, my desktop environment is lxQt and screensaver is xScreensaver.

I'm trying to figure out a way to switch between users, (e.g. when pressing Meta + L).

Even though, it is possible to lock the screen with xscreensaver, I'm unable to use "new login" button and it shows this message:

could not excute "gdmflexiserver": No such file or directory

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I have come up with something I judge to be a hacky solution: creating a keyboard shortcut that triggers dm-tool switch-to-greeter.

Although, as I said: it's more like a hack than a solution. It also makes me authenticate twice: once for LightDM and another for XScreenSaver, which is not very convenient.

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  • I think you have the rite tool dm-tool go through its manpage manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/dm-tool.1.html
    – PRATAP
    Feb 4, 2021 at 14:38
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    switch-to-user USERNAME [SESSION] Switch to a user session. If this user is already logged in then the display manager will switch to that session, otherwise a new session is started. If authentication is required a greeter will start to collect this. If the session option is provided then this session type will be used, otherwise the default for this user is used.
    – PRATAP
    Feb 4, 2021 at 14:39
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    Do you want a whole desktop environment with the second user, or is it enough to run a window or two with the second user (within the desktop environment of the first user)?
    – sudodus
    Feb 4, 2021 at 15:22

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