[Q] Multi-seat with screens instead of displays

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 09:36:47 PST 2006


On 1/12/06, dave madden <dhm at mersenne.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to run a multi-seat system on an X server with two
> screens connected to a single adapter?  I have an ATI Radeon 9250 with
> two monitors, and I can get it to run in clone, multi-screen, and
> Xinerama modes, but what I want is a separate keyboard/mouse on each
> screen, so I can run independent sessions.  I can live with either not
> restarting the server when one session logs out, or restarting both
> sessions occasionally.
>
> Any suggestions for how to get a kbd/ptr per screen rather than per
> server?

it's possible with xorg 6.9/7.0/cvs, however I haven't tried it
myself.  check the mailing list archives for more.

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> dhm.



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