multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Tue Sep 9 08:26:26 PDT 2008


Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Steven J Newbury wrote:
>> I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with
>> respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie
>> specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing something?
> 
> This is probably ConsoleKit, really.

I would have thought so yeah.

It would be nice if you could also tie a display to a sound device. If 
console kit took care of this and defined a "seat" in such a way then 
sound should also "just work" with pulseaudio which already has good 
integration with console kit.

Col

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