On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 pm, Chris I wrote:
> On 2003.11.13 22:40, Bryce wrote:
> > Hi All. I've been curious about this for a while, and was wondering
> > if
> > its
> > possible. Is there a way to have 1 machine fascilitate 2 or more
> > monitors,
> > keyboards, & mouse. Each Monitor having its own Xsession, using its
> > own
> > keyboard,etc.
> >
> > Kind of like a dummy terminal, just have the extra montiros directly
> > connect
> > to the host computer. And have the mice and keyboards go through USB.
> >
> > Is this possible???
>
> More or less what X (protocol) was designed to do, essentially, wasnt
> it?
>
> Anyway, the only thing that might be tricky would be keyboards. I'm not
> sure how you could set those up (you'd basically be required to use usb
> keyboards). Keyboards can probably be represented via the event
> interface, but im not sure if xfree86 can do anything with that yet.
>
> As for mouse, monitor, and video card, no problem. I'm not sure of the
> details on how it can be done (hehe, i'd gladly research it for you if
> you send me the hardware :). 

Where would you find the information to research this?? This is merely a 
hypothetical idea. But an idea one day i may want to use. So i'm looking into 
it now.

bryce


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