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Idea #2615: dual-human(2 screens/keyboards/mouses)

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #3442: "Click-n-play" Multiseat support .
Written by gregory.mounie the 2 Mar 08 at 23:35. Category: Installation. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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It is common that people need more than one "computer" at the same time. It is possible to use one computer but two graphic cards, connected to two screen, or one dual-screen graphic card and several usb mouse and usb keyboard.
The Xorg.conf/[gk]dm configuration process could be automated.
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Written by gregory.mounie the 2 Mar 08 at 23:35.
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cantormath wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 02:25
Yes,

There a few ways to do this.
You can also setup think clients. It comes built into edubuntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto.

ilia wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:00
It's usually called multi-seat configuration. I personally use it at home (dual-seat). I configured all manually, but it would be great if some easy-to-use configuration script would be included. There is a "multiseat" package in ubuntu, but it's outdated and doesn't seem to be maintained.

Ubuwu wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 15:42
This shouldn't be hard to achieve in hardy. See this blog post:

http://netpatia.blogspot.com/2008/01/coming-soon-multiseat-in-ubuntu-804.html

andersja wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 14:08


MDM / Multi Seat Display Manager / Multiseat Display Manager is available: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczMg

This is a HUGE step forward!

.deb Packages for Hardy available here! http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Installing

See also http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3442/


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