On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:03:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Certainly. You can run multiple copies of X, or multiple xdm's, > > on separate > > virtual consoles, and use Ctrl-Atl-7, Ctrl-Alt-8, etc, to switch between > > them. > > As I had thought and hoped, but wasn't sure. Thanks! > > If User 1 runs on DISPLAY=localhost:0 and User 2 runs on DISPLAY=localhost:1 > (or however that would really be described, based I guess on the graphics > hardware I choose) then would they be able to <Alt><Ctrl>F7 to each other's > displays? I hope not, and I would presume that normal Linux permissions > would prohibit that. (Unless possibly User 1 == User 2)
Since they're both on the console, yes, you'd be able to switch between them: remember, they're on the same monitor. If, in fact, they're *not* on the same monitor, then I don't know *how* the console driver (which is in *front* of all of this stuff) handles that. > > Um, where were you planning to plug in a second keyboard? :-) > > I was thinking PS/2 for the primary keyboard and mouse, and then USB for the > secondary keyboard and mouse. I'm guessing that it would be *fairly* easy to > keep the two straight that way. Duplicate USB devices sounds dangerous to > me. Maybe there's some sort of keyboard/mouse to Ethernet adapter for this > sort of remote application? Hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure how well that will work; you'd have to *keep* Linux from seeing the one on the USB port -- you *only* want X(2) to see it, and I'm not sure you can. > FYI - It's probably understood, but keyboard/mouse A must always be > associated with monitor A. Not much good to be in one room typing things on > the other monitor. ;-) Yeah. :-) > > Look into DOSVNC and a spare 386. > > No, we do that already. This is a more specialized situation in an area > where I have absolutely zero background. (I'm just an end-user type.) My point was merely that it may be cost-ineffective to go through all this work, unless you can find someone else who's already done it, and can cookbook it for you. But I guess that's what you're doing, isn't it? Any special reason why they need to share the machine? Computers are *CHEAP*. You can't cost-justify the *labor* to figure this out before you've paid for a new box... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
