[linux] Xorg multiseat

Wanted!

This page shows an example for the KDE Desktop Manager. How to do this GDM (GNOME Display Manager) or XDM (X Display Manager) should be added.

What is multiseat?

Multiseat is a certain setup where multiple users work simultaneously on one computer. This is achieved by having two monitors, two keyboards and two mice. The advantages are quite obvious:

  • Less power consumption (only one computer)
  • Less hardware to purchase
  • All the cool kids do it

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Multi-Monitor Setup On A Single Physical Head (Now Better!)

That’s a big title, eh? I blogged previously about setting up a multi-head X environment for development and testing, even though I’m working on a laptop with only one card. My previous attempt used Xdmx and multiple Xephyr displays, and there were some problems with it. Thankfully, Lubos commented about his nifty little fakexinerama library that achieves the same result only MUCH easier (easierly?) and without any of the problems that I’d seen using Xdmx/Xephyr(1..n). Here, then, is a description of what I’ve done and the results….

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Multiseat on Linux

Multiseat on Ubuntu 10.04 – Part 1 – Setting up the base

 Foreword: Special thanks go to Halton Huo who wrote many patches for gdm and consolekit!

What was supposed to be a very long tutorial, turned out to be actually pretty compact. I’ve created Debian packages for i386 and amd64 for your convenience :-). These packages contain a slightly older versions of Consolekit and GDM than the Ubuntu repository’s. Also: not all Ubuntu patches are applied yet. Please let me know if you experience any problems and I will look into it. See the end of this blogpost for more information.

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Multiseat

使用的方法就是如同一个人使用一台电脑一样.
最后,在8400gs显卡上接了一个飞利浦的15寸显示器;
在9800gt上接了一个19寸显示器.
两个鼠标分别控制两个显示器.

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多重基座 X-Win 系統 (Multi-Seat X-Win System)

為了讓逸晨家中那群小天使能夠不再爭奪電腦的使用權,也為了讓那塵封已久的螢幕能有再見光明的日子,在歷經多日的文件搜尋,以及一年多的使用測試後,終於肯定了 multi-seat 的實用性 — 當然,前提是得看該部主機的主要用途了。

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ATI Radeon HD 5450 not working