[GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX

[Colin Uhen]

In a multiseat Xorg environment, each physical "workstation" (monitor,
mouse, keyboard) has its own X server. I haven't set this up myself, but
I've thought about doing this instead of just a dual-monitor setup (using
two keyboards and mice in seperate locations). With a whole computer lab, I
can see there being a very complicated and long xorg.conf file. How did you
manage to sort through all of the input devices?
Not Ubuntu related, but Arch wiki has a good article on this:
here<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat#What_is_multiseat.3F>
(Long time reader, first poster. :)

-Colin

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

>
>
> > Looking to share stories.  This past year, I helped the school that my
> > children attend to switch to Linux.  New lab, with 32 seats.
> >  MultiseatX with Ubuntu 9.04 connected to a Ubuntu server.  Very
> > challenging and fun to build the computers and get Multiseat working.
> > Has anyone else out there tried Multiseat?
>
> Never even heard of it.  And at a glance I don't get it.  What is
> different between "Multiseat" and just using XDMCP (as X-terminals [the
> physical things, not "xterm"] have done for years?
>
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