Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Target window never fires up (in this case) - this thought is however > not relevant as it used to work 100% correctly on older Gnomes, hence my > request insinuating "focus strategy" type differences in the DEs Actually I suspect its very relevant - if you've got timing dependancies in your a

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-29 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
Hi Alan, Thanks for your thoughts. Please see my comments interspersed with yours. Regards, Zoltan On 2012/03/29 13:10, Alan Cox wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) I've run multiple XFCE sessions at once as *different* users on the same

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 > drivers/methodology) I've run multiple XFCE sessions at once as *different* users on the same box to different displays. That works - and to be honest - that ought to work on any desktop. Trying to do multiple as one user ends

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-29 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/03/29 09:06, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/28/2012 11:55 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or the newer Gnome) This probably isn't the best place

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/28/2012 11:55 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or the newer Gnome) This probably isn't the best place to ask, partially because Fedora is

Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

2012-03-28 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
Hi All, I see a nice healthy discussion on these DEs - please can someone with actual experience give me some guidance. As an Ububtu user, I am following this list because F17 will have "native" multiseat support. My staff run 1 (and only 1) application in Linux: A proprietary GIS package, t