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
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