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open a tiny awesome session

Xephyr :5 & sleep 1 ; DISPLAY=:5 awesome

open a tiny LXDE session (sudo)

Xephyr :5 & sleep 1 ; DISPLAY=:5 sudo lxsession

open a tiny xfce4 session

Xephyr :5 & sleep 1 ; DISPLAY=:5 xfce4-session

this person made a much more ellaborate shell script: Running a nested xfce4-session in Xephyr

test lightdm configuration

lightdm --test-mode

close the little window to reload config from files and reflect any changes made

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