How do you login to 2 sessions with same user with lightdm?

As the title says.
When I've got one DE session running (Cinnamon in my case) on tty1 then I go switch user and lightdm pops up on tty2. If I were then to choose a different user and login it loads the new session on tty2, however if I choose my user but with a different WM/DE it just kicks me back to tty1 with Cinnamon.
I'm trying some new WMs so I want to be able to leave my main session running in case I don't know the commands for the new WM (and can't even open an internet browser to look them up, it's happened to me before).
Cheers

You can definitely have more than one login to different desktop environments (or any other X session).  But I don't know of a way that this can be done through a login manager.  I think you could definitely log into an X session for the first, but for the second I think you would have to either have a different seat available, or you would have to start it from a TTY (with startx or xinit).

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