[systemd-devel] Someone working on gui for multiseat?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 27.01.13 11:40, Stef Bon (stefbon at gmail.com) wrote:

> > I think that it depends on the type of docking station. Things like
> > Plugable UD-160-* are mostly used to create a new session.
> >
> 
> Well yes most likely, but not always.
> I know users and can imagine situations (as describe above) that also these
> devices are used as docking station, not to create a new session.
> 
> It depends on the user/admin. So things should not be done automatically,
> like it's done now, by setting the ID_AUTOSEAT to 1 for these devices.
> 
> Udev should first check the settings set by the administrator what to to
> with these devices: an extra seat or a docking station.

Well, this is a discussion of defaults, so there will always be unhappy
folks. Some use it as multi-seat device, others as port replicator.

Right now, on Linux things like the ThinkPad UltraBase is handled as a
port replicator, so that the extra screen connected to it will extend
the existing monitor, but as the Plugable device is probably more
marketed towards being a multi-seat solution we default to making it a
new seat.

We also allow the user to reassign autoimatic seat assignemnts freely,
in case they are not happy with the defaults... There's currently no
nice UI for that, but there already is a command line tool for that.

Lennart

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