[GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jim Olding <olding at smashtech.net> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly, but it looks like 1 PC with a
> bunch of video cards and USB keyboards/mice connected to it, as
> opposed to thin clients or X terminals.  Sounds interesting in any
> case.

The last time I played around with this, I couldn't work it out
because the input for each USB keyboard was interpolated at the input
layer in the kernel.  If X supports the raw input nodes, though, it
ought to work.

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