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It’s helpful to in this case to say what you’re actually trying to do.
I don’t think you want multiseat, but I did something similar with x back in the day using a configuration for users similar to what’s described here.
Note that that isn’t what you asked for. It’s having multiple x sessions on different f1, f2 etc keys.
I'm just messing around with testing/configuring different desktop environment/window managers and I'm looking for a quick way to preview them (running the new session as my user would be fine too - I just thought it would be simpler as a different user)
running a "second seat" on a different F key like in the link might be a good way to do that.
back in the day i would just log out and log in. there's so much going on with desktop environments i kinda had to spend some time in one doing my daily to figure out if it was what i wanted.