Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-24 Thread tilt!
Hi, T.J. Duchene wrote on 23/07/2015 at 21:35 CEST: [...] UNIX was designed from the beginning to be a multi-user system. That was entire reason in creating it, actually. The concept of multi-seat as a feature is being able to login and allow multiple users to use the same hardware

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Vlad
Yeah, but that is why we have VNC for. As I said, multiseat is pretty much useless. Hell, the proprietary software can be installed on a server and run from anywhere. On Jul 23, 2015 6:32 AM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 7/23/2015 5:37 AM, Teodoro Santoni wrote: Good morning, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39:23PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: [snip] Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Fernando M. Maresca
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. Better footprint, less power consumption. I rutinelly do two and three seat ws without any expensive usb hub: a

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread T.J. Duchene
Guys, I have serious problems understanding what is the point of this thread, really. And lenghty emails with many interleaving, fragmented discussions and cross-quoting from several different sources are far from helpful. Hi KatolaZ! I assure you it was never my intention to offend anyone,

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:54:06AM +0200, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: Is it because you send from (pasting from your header): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 or is it for some other reason (or for both or/and other reasons

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread miro . rovis
Is it because you send from (pasting from your header): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 or is it for some other reason (or for both or/and other reasons yet), who can tell? But... On 7/23/2015 12:01 AM, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 05:05:52AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Guys, I have serious problems understanding what is the point of this thread, really. And lenghty emails with many interleaving, fragmented discussions and cross-quoting from several different sources are far from helpful.

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-23 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Good morning, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39:23PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: [snip] Multi-seat logins are very useful in situations where users do not understand how to run X11 applications with different user permissions. It is an easy mechanism that is familiar to users from other systems

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread James Powell
There is ConsoleKit2... From: Vladmailto:2389...@gmail.com Sent: ‎7/‎22/‎2015 5:49 PM To: dng@lists.dyne.orgmailto:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity? I think that the pretty useless feature which

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. As you might know multi seat is supposed to make possible for multiple users to utilize a single desktop or laptop

[DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread Vlad
I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. As you might know multi seat is supposed to make possible for multiple users to utilize a single desktop or laptop system in full blown GUI mode via special USB hubs, the