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Questions tagged [multiseat]

Use for questions regarding setups where one computer can be shared by multiple users simultaneously, each of which has a separate terminal (screen, keyboard, mouse...) at their disposal.

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Can one PC be used by two users at the same time via dual-monitor?

Since modern PCs can use two screens at the same time I wonder if it is possible to plug in two keyboards and mouses as well to have the two screens run two (more or less) independent X-sessions at once?
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How to lock one mouse/keyboard pair to each screen?

Using the ATI Catalyst Control Center (fglrx), I setup two desktops (the multidesktop option) via dual-head. Now I have two mice and keyboards (USB) attached which, using xinput can be put in two separate groups. Can I lock each group to one screen?…
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Multiple Users on a Desktop Environment

Lets pretend we had a *nix rather powerful system... Now Obviously I know you can set up multiple users to login to a system.......but how exactly do you do that? Like....how would all the monitors connect and such, or would you need a smaller…
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Autostart all LightDM seats and show one as default

I configured a media-center server running Debian with LightDM, Leapcast and Plex. What I want to accomplish is the following. There should be three LightDM seats, one default seat on which I can login; one seat that runs Leapcast (Chromecast…
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Multiseat with one card and two Xorg instance

Is it possible to set up a multiseat environment with one graphic card and two Xorg instances? That is, one machine with a monitor/keyboard/mouse for the first Xorg instance and a second monitor/keyboard/mouse for another Xorg instance. I am using…
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Multiseat X setup with a single dual head graphics card

I am considering trying to setup a multiseat system. It seems like this would be pretty straight forward if I had two graphics cards or if I didn't need hardware based OpenGL acceleration. Is it possible to setup a multi seat system with only a…
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Lock second mouse pointer & keyboard input to one window

This is basically a lite version of multiseat (see my other question): I can setup two mouse pointers (see e.g. here, here or here) and two keyboards (although my two identical logitech K200 keyboards show up as four keyboards in xinput list, any…
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Share keyboard over network as separate device?

I am trying to achieve something similar to this: https://superuser.com/questions/67659/linux-share-keyboard-over-network The difference is that I need the remote keyboard to be usable separate from my local keyboard. The method described in the…
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Nondeterministic graphic cards device names

My system contains three graphic cards, one radeon and two nvidia. I'm trying to configure a multiseat setup but the "device name" of the graphic cards is not stable, it change from one boot to another. exemple boot 1 Radeon…
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Distribution recommendation for a multiseat setup using dual-head and supporting direct rendering

I have two keyboards, mice and monitors and a ATI Radeon HD 4290 onboard a ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 mainboard. Can you recommend a distribution or livecd that supports the GPU and offers easy means to setup a dual-head multiseat system where both…
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Why does other user stay logged in on seat0 and prevent me to hibernate?

Using openSUSE Leap 15.1 with KDE. I log in as user1 then switch to user2 and log that on off again. Hibernating as user1 was until recently no problem (if I logged off user2). But now I get this: $ systemctl hibernate User user2 is logged in on…
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How to make udev not assign seat to bluetooth keyboard

I would like to use a bluetooth keyboard as a remote control (PIN entry pad for opening an electric strike) instead of as an actual keyboard for console input. I can get access to the bluetooth keyboard just fine using the following udev…
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Realize a multiseat system with a polarized 3D-monitor

Besides playing 3D-material, modern 3D-TV-sets (using polarization technology) offer the possibility of dual-play. While 3d-playback works with different polarization for the left and the right eye, with dual play 2 users can watch completely…
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Separate monitors with separate keyboard and mouse input?

So I was wondering if it would be possible using Xfce and without virtual machines to essentially make one computer act as two by having two monitors with different workspaces and separate keyboard and mouse input. For example one person could be…
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Almost multiseating with Xephyr

With swaywm I'm almost multiseating (two people simultaneously using the same computer) with two keyboards, two mice and one GPU with two outputs. At the start of the sway session, one nested X session is opened with Xephyr querying the localhosts…
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