Re: Multiple sessions accessed simultaneously

[Andrew Bevitt]

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
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Multiple sessions accessed simultaneously

[Andrew Bevitt]

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
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