Multiseat approved as an F11 feature!

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Multiseat approved as an F11 feature! Thu, Nov 20. 2008


The Multiseat proposal was approved as a feature for Fedora 11 at yesterday's FESCO meeting.


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#1 - Corey Burger said:
2008-11-20 17:30 - (Reply)

For multiseat and the assigning of keyboards/mice, Userful uses the clever trick of popping up a screen if a new device is plugged in, asking to press a key on the keyboard (usually the F1-F10 keys) which can uniquely identify each keyboard and clicking the mouse button to link it to a seat.

#2 - Frederick Koehler said:
2008-12-10 16:58 - (Reply)

I run a 4-seat configuration on Fedora 8 at home (works great), and would be happy to help w/ some testing on this feature. I'm running an aging Dell Precision 650 w/ Nvidia Quadro NVS400 (provides two GPU's, each dual-headed), an Nvidia GeForce4 Ti (AGP) and a GeForce FX 5500 (PCI).

#2.1 - Chris Tyler said:
2009-02-03 08:16 - (Reply)

Excellent! The more testers the better. Perhaps the best way to coordinate this would be to join the multiseat mailing list -- see http://multiseat.fedorahosted.org for details.

#3 - fraggle 2008-12-12 20:25 - (Reply)

Feature ???

It's a regression bug fix from fedora 8.

#3.1 - Chris Tyler said:
2009-02-03 08:14 - (Reply)

Yes, but we want to do more than fix the regression -- we want to make it work well out-of-the-box, as smooth as possible. Perhaps with F11 we'll only get as far as fixing the regression, though, and the ootb may have to be pushed to F12.


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