there is a growing # of people wanting to utilize their systems more fully by sharing 1 PC amoung several LOCAL users simultaniously. by this i mean having 1 PC with 2 or more keyboards 2 or more mice, and 2 or more monitors--two or more USERS active at the same time. X very nearly supports this as is (with seperate X instances), the only hurdle is with VT switching, X wants to have only 1 instance per VT. and only one VT is active at a time. Several people like Miguel Freitas and Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak have made their own patches to allow this in the past. Since these early patches nearly all the functionality to allow this has been included in newer kernels and common software packages. The only remaining obstacle is with vt switching on X below is a patch to allow it to work on xorg-x11-6.7.0 There are a great many users would would benefit from this functionality being included in newer builds. As you can see the patch is relatively small and designed to work with command line switches which have no effect on users who arent using those command line options. For more information on how this patch is used check this website: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ (google cache) http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:yS6KfhPBOCYJ:cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc- rio.br/multiuser/ (scroll down on the page, the first part is how to use the original versions of the patch, the newer versions of the patch dont require two seperate builds) Here is the patch: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/yenya/xorg-x11-6.7.0- dualhead.patch (google cache) http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:yYktHKyOSxYJ:cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc- rio.br/multiuser/yenya/xorg-x11-6.7.0-dualhead.patch
Created attachment 3328 [details] [review] proposed patch for multi Local user X
oops, this might already have been taken care of? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2216 ill have to check it out ;0 sorry, and thanks! if its already done ;)
yes, this is a dupe. #2216 already tracked this, and the support there has been available since 6.8.99.15. incidentally, the patch you attached would not be acceptable in Xorg due to the inclusion of GPL code. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2216 ***
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