On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson via desktop-devel-list wrote: > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 07:25 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 07:08:51PM +0000, Richard Henwood via > > desktop-devel-list 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. > > > > As Niels already pointed out, multiseat is the word to look for here. > > However, the most common documentation on multiseat you will find is for > > separate sessions on the same host computer. The goal is to save on > > hardware, not collaboration. > > > > If you google for MPX or Multi-Pointer X, that provides what you need and > > it's been supported in X since 2008 or so. Should be immediately available > > via: > > Is there anything like MPX supported in gnome-shell's wayland session?
We have started to add basic seat separation into the clutter fork (e.g. ClutterSeat), but clutter has traditionally been single seat with a single "device manager" which owns all input devices. To summarize, we're still not there yet, but are moving in that direction. Jonas > > - ajax > > _______________________________________________ > 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
