<div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">Thanks for the ansewr. why won't X select different /dev/ttyXX </div><div> </div>An wise Scandinavian old man once said: "in the end, everything is going to be alright" <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr" > <hr size="1"> From: Aivils Štoss <aivils@latnet.lv> To: "StompDagger1@yahoo.com" <stompdagger1@yahoo.com> Cc: "xorg@lists.x.org" <xorg@lists.x.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: Re: why does -sharevts is so important for multseat setup? </div> Citējot "<a ymailto="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com">StompDagger1@yahoo.com</a>" <<a ymailto="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com">stompdagger1@yahoo.com</a>>: > Hello, > > > I have a multiseat setup and where I'm experiencing lose of keystrokes in the second seat. > I'm using hotpluged (via udev) feature, what I do noticed that if I press CRTL+ALT+F1on seat 2, seat1 goes to cli. > for now I'm putting udev aside on this matter and try to concentrate on X part, while searching the web I've found a article that mentions that such issue can happen due to the -sharevts. > > I wanted to know, why multiseat setup needs to share vts? why if I take out this feature, one of the seats doesn't lights up? > Normally kernel sends key press events to applications via /dev/ttyXX device files. Each Xorg open single /dev/ttyXX file and receive keyboard events. /dev/ttyXX was designed to support single active application like Xorg. When one X became active then another suspended. So single end-user can easy switch between multiple X instances. Multiseat have another mission. That is a reason of -sharevts. Active X does not try to suspend another X via /dev/ttyXX. In reality /dev/ttyXX stay unused under multiseat, because every X receive events from keyboards via /dev/input/eventXX device files. As alternative You can hack the Linux kernel with faketty (outdated) module. Aivils Stoss _______________________________________________ <a ymailto="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org" href="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org">xorg@lists.x.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target=_blank >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target=_blank >http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a ymailto="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com">stompdagger1@yahoo.com</a> </div> </div>