On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > how hard would it be to add more keyboards and mice to XFree, each > > > > delivering events to a different screen, thus enabling a full local > > > > multiuser setup? Is there any reason why this couldn't be implemented? > > > > > Are there really no plans to provide such multi-user functionality in > XFree? It seems to me like a natural way to go and one that has been > much requested... I would gladly donate my time for this if someone > of the XFree developers provided some guidance and advice. I've > already spent some hours looking at the source and it's still a jungle > to me... (No offence intended, of course. It's probably just me.) >
Are you aware of the linuxconsole project at linuxconsole.sourceforge.net, looks like this kind of thing is included in thier plans. Stuff is already getting merged into the 2.5 development kernels. > The way I see is providing multiple event queues, one for each user > (=screen, or even set of screens), and attach one keyboard and one > mouse to each queue. And make one mouse cursor for each queue. I'm > probably missing something important, but on first view, that seems > to be it. Any insight? > > Vaclav Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IDAS, s.r.o. http://www.idas.cz > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > -- Andrew Clayton
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