Christian Aistleitner posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:27:58 +0100:
> I have several mice, keyboards, and monitors/graphic cards attached to my > gentoo ~amd64 machine at once. I created a server layout using all mice, > keyboards, and monitors. X (x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6) works like a > charm. > > However, I wanted to split the mice, monitors, and keyboards to > workplaces. For example the first mouse, the first keyboard and the first > Monitor for workplace1 and the rest for workplace2. Both workplaces should > allow to operate independently from the other. For example I am logged in > and working on workplace1. Them a friend drops by, logs in on workplace2 > WHILE i am working on workplace1 > > So I separated my xorg.conf into two layouts. One for workplace1 and one > for workplace2. > However, I could not attach the keyboards to different vt's. Therfore, if > I choose to have workplace1 on vt7 and workplace2 on vt8, I can use either > workplace1 or workplace2. Not both of them simultaneously. > > I found several patches for X, but after applying them, X did not compile. > I also found the "Backstreet Ruby kernel" mentioned several times -- > these pages however date back to 2003. As you saw, X by itself doesn't work the way you intend. Different layouts are for alternate arrangements, but still single X user. Even different VT (virtual terminals) wouldn't do what you want. That would allow you to run two X sessions on the same physical terminal, switching between them. What you want might be more in line with either two X sessions, running an X server on your friend's computer, to connect to X clients running on yours (while you run your own X server and clients separately), or something like the LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project, which runs one big server and a bunch of thin clients, normally diskless boot, that access the main server. I don't know much about either arrangement, but the LTSP home page is http://www.ltsp.org/ That's barely a pointer in (one hopes) the right direction, but that's a start. Perhaps someone else has more. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
