pseudo multi-seat with dual head

[Yan Seiner]

Richard Morton wrote:
> ok, thanks for that. the issue, with using a single dual head display
> rather than using multi-seat is that power management will turn on
> both screens if one screen is in use. I would rather have only the
> screens being used being switched on via powermanagement.
>   
AFAIK there's no way to turn each screen on independently.  I have three 
heads; one running myth on a separate card and two running Xephyr on top 
of a singe X session.  I had to disable power management on all of them 
to make it work.

> So, I guess I go back to asking how I setup multi-seat.. I have played
> with it all day, looking at using kdm and multi-seat display manager
> (mdm, it doesnt mention anything after ubuntu 8.04) and I cant get
> either to work with 10.10 on my laptop (although I would of course be
> looking to implement on 10.04LTS on the server.
>   
mdm is a few scripts that do some fancy stuff to find the root window 
and to hook the right input devices to the right screen.  They don't 
work with the proprietary nvidia drivers.  I hacked mdm to work with 
nvidia; there's a page in their wiki on that.

If you're good with shell scripts, you can hack the scripts to work with 
your distro.  I think there's one binary helper app.

> (btw; the idea is to use a single remote and "it just work" for the users.
>   
Single remote for both screens?  Or single remote for each screen?

--Yan


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