Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: > Tiago Vignatti schrieb: >> Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: >>> BTW, I tried the multiseat live CD from >>> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Live-CD >>> >>> I like its hardware detection (press F1, left mouse to activate this >>> screen). >> >> Indeed, it's nice. >> >> Now a question: is there a reason to keep your howto alive in the Web >> given that it doesn't show anything in special or different compared >> with the others? It will just confuse the poor users. > > Let's see what the other options are: > > According to http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat > we have the following pages with "Users" in mind: > > 1) http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm > > mdm is a nice "feature preview", even with a live CD, but just no major > distro ships it. And if a major distro doesn't ship some software, it > just doesn't exist in a Linux world. > Livecd had some flaws as I tested it: > - resolutions were not detected properly and I couldn't change them > (even xrandr was showing that 1024x768 is the only possible one) > - the system didn't reboot as I told it to; it was hanging somewhere at > the end waiting for something. > > These are minor flaws, and perhaps not even mdm related. > What I didn't like about mdm is that it doesn't ask if it should really > shut down or reboot the machine if there are other users logged in (for > example, KDM does that, it is nice IMO). > > > 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat - wikipedia article. > It's a good explanation, but it won't configure your Linux desktop to be > a multiseat station. > > > 3) http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/?proj_id=multiseat&menu_id=1 - as big fat > words say, "DONT TRY THIS!", so let's just not go there. > > > 4) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/ - "very old > documentation. DONT TRY THIS! It is here just for historical purposes". > OK, so another antiquated documentation. I actually tried to read this, > well, but yes, I agree with "DONT TRY THIS" words now. > > > > So what did we have there - nothing usable for a mere mortal, rather > scary words that multiseat should not be used. > > > Let's look here now: > > http://wpkg.org/Configuring_multiseat_X_workstation > > It's far from being perfect, but at least: > - does not tell you you have to patch and compile your brand new 2.4 > kernel, because otherwise, multiseat is not possible > - doesn't tell you to install a modified XFree86 server > - is easy to follow and will work for majority of users who ever edited > their xorg.conf in the past > > > So sorry, but if anything's confusing the poor users, it's that > wiki.x.org page that lists old documentation which is even not > applicable today. > Or did you mean, there is some other documentation listed elsewhere? I'd > be glad to hear about it. > > Of course, the whole discussion would be unnecessary if the distros > shipped a tool - other than a text editor - for configuring multiseat; > but so far, I don't know any distro that does (despite numerous user > requests; perhaps not enough though).
okay, Tomasz. I updated our wiki [0]. Please take a look there and see if it's reasonable and fits with your ideas. BTW, you didn't give credits and/or referenced anyone in your page. [0] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat Cheers, -- Tiago Vignatti C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre www.c3sl.ufpr.br _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
