[LightDM] New multi-seat behaviour

[Robert Ancell]

Others on the list may be able to give more detailed information but
essentially you should follow the logind documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat/

In short, either logind will automatically create two seats if you have the
appropriate hardware, or you need to run "loginctl attach" to assign the
hardware to each seat.

For LightDM you just need to make up to three sections of configuration:

[SeatDefaults]
# options for all seats

[(first seat name)]
# options for the first seat

[(second seat name)]
# options for the second seat. e.g. configure this seat to do XDMCP

Hope this helps,
--Robert

On Wed Nov 12 2014 at 20:35:28 Tolingo Tolinga <tolingo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Robert.
>
> Would you point me to the documentation for the proper way to configure 2
> seats with version >1.12? The first Seat being the default local server
> (Ctrl+F7) and a XDMCP Seat to another machine on (Ctrl+F8).
>
> I appreciate your effort.
>
> --Tolingo
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tolingo,
>>
>> The multi-seat configuration changed in 1.12 [1].
>>
>> --Robert
>>
>> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2014-August/000661.html
>>
>> On 5 November 2014 06:56, Tolingo Tolinga <tolingo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I used to have 2 seats defined in my LightDM configuration. One for the
>>> local machine and a second one for XDMCP to a Lan-Machine, like this:
>>>
>>> [Seat:0]
>>> greeter-hide-users=false
>>> vt=7
>>>
>>> [Seat:1]
>>> type=xlocal
>>> xserver-allow-tcp=true
>>> xdmcp-manager=Lan-Machine
>>> vt=8
>>>
>>> [XDMCPServer]
>>> enabled=true
>>>
>>> but now [Seat:1] is now ignored. How can I enable a second seat for my
>>> XDMCP machine?
>>>
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 with LightDM 1.12.1
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance
>>>
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>>
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