Multiple sessions accessed simultaneously
Hello, I was just trying to get a feel for what people are looking at doing (ie plans etc..) in regards to having a X session running on more than one VT, on seperate monitors, that can be accessed by two different people simultaneously. This would ovbiously require multiple input devices, two mice and keyboards. Problem as I see it from the vanilla source tree is that no two VT's can be active simultaneously, and that device binding/exclusion for input on that VT is not supported. After all it would be a tad hard to work on a system when somewhen else move another mouse and your cursor moved with it :) Thanks Andrew Bevitt ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Multiple sessions accessed simultaneously
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Andrew Bevitt wrote: > I was just trying to get a feel for what people are looking at doing > (ie plans etc..) in regards to having a X session running on more > than one VT, on seperate monitors, that can be accessed by two > different people simultaneously. I see that the patch http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/XFree86-4.3.0-unified.patch at http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ was tidied up in September 2003, and may now be suitable for inclusion in XFree86 (the previous version required 2 XFree86 binaries, so would not have been acceptable). If it works for you, you could submit it to http://bugs.xfree86.org I imagine that it would not be included in the 4.4 release as it is far too late for a new feature. I'll look at extending that patch to cooperate with the XFree86_VT property feature which was slipped into 4.4 recently. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Multiple sessions accessed simultaneously
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:30 pm, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > I see that the patch > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/XFree86-4.3.0-unified.patch > at > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ > was tidied up in September 2003, and may now be suitable for inclusion > in XFree86 (the previous version required 2 XFree86 binaries, so would > not have been acceptable). Im aware of that patch as it was originally this patch that made me post the question. I see a fundamental flaw in the process used in that patch, and hence was wondering what the XFree86 status was. Realistically VT locking (as is done in the patch) should not be necessary, and the no scan code keyboard should not be needed either. What I envision is an Xserver started twice (as there is no current functionality to port a futher server underneath VT_servers), but these servers should have XF86Config configurable devices that can and can't operate on the server, the multiuser patch only works if you dont have a kernel driven USB keyboard as your 2ND device!!! Andrew Bevitt ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
