Xephyr -geometry patch

[davor emard]

And also a practical guide howto use devilspie from gdm
to place xephyr's into different xinerama targets


On 3/11/08, JoJo jojo <onetwojojo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
> <chithanh at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> >  > So what advice, can you give to the people
> >  > who want to run a multiseat (2 multiseat) on
> >  > 1 gpu with 2 outputs.
> >  >
> >  > Assuming they want to implement this in the next couple of months (X
> v1.4?)
> >  >
> >  > Currently, Xephyr is "supposedly" the closest option.
> >  >
> >  You can either use a Xephyr which is patched for -geometry, or you can
> >  use devilspie as suggested by the maintainer.
> >  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12221#c2
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
>
> Alright, does the Recipe look like this ?
>
> a) 1 X.org server configured&running
> b) Xinerama/etc bigdesktop enabled
> c) 2 Xephyr servers running
> d) evdev for keyboards & mice (USB/PS2 mix&match)
>
> The following issues will be faced
> 1) Building X.org v1.4
> 2) Patching Xephyr (is it required, does the path work)
> 3) GDM/KDM config for Xephyr
> 4) evdev voodoo
>
> So we need documentation on
> i) Xephyr (updated man page, how to patch etc)
> ii) How to configure GDM/KDM for Xephyr
> iii) How to configure evdev (which input device to which terminal)
>
> -JoJo
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