Hey Richard, If I understood correctly, then the definition you are looking for is called *multi-seat* (where a "seat" represents a mouse/keyboard/...).
First things first: unless something recently changed, I don't think multi-seat is supported in any Wayland compositor, so you'll have to fall back to X for now. Next, I'm not an expert on this, but apart from some Google searching, these pages seem to be quite helpful in your journey (especially depending on your distro): * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multiseat * https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat Good luck! Cheers, Niels On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 8:09 PM Richard Henwood via desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a large monitor, and I would like to use my computer with my child. My > vision is for me and my child to have our own keyboards and mice. I imagine > working away on 'my side' of the screen, while they are working on their > side. Occasionally, I will 'reach across' and help them with what they are > working on. > > I think libinput is part of the solution here. I added two mice it roughly > worked but there are mice cursor artifacts. I guess that GNOME or possibly > Wayland also needs some concept of multiple simultaneous inputs? I am on an > Ubuntu 18.04 distro, so may be things have improved with more recent releases? > > So, in short, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions for me to > follow-up with? > > best regards, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
