Hi Paulo, it sounds like a very convenient trick, in some particular contexts though. Like:
- Schools in developing countries (probably the more sensible case, since laptops are quite popular in richer countries) - Homes with less mobility need (I guess your case) Probably these use cases are not enough spread to have it as a top priority for the distro, but I don't see why such improvement couldn't happen if developed by people who feel closer to those cases. Cheers, chr On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, pjssi...@gmail.com <pjssi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to make a suggestion: make multiseat configuration easy in > Ubuntu. > > Since I am not sure that this is the right mailing list to post this > idea I am going to try to keep the email relatively small. If I should > wirte somewhere else please let me know. > > First I need to explain what is multiseat: it is the ability to use a > single computer to run multiple sets of > screen+mouse+keyboards+other-peripherals. The reason for this is that > today computers are usually much more powerful than what is needed by > a single person most of the time. Then by heaving multiseats you can > share the same computer with more the one person, like your wife, your > son, or a co-worker. Each one will have their on set of > screen-mouse-keyboard so from their point of view they have the > computer for themselves. You can get more information at > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX > > The only special hardware you need to add is an extra video-card (even > if a USB variation), plus the screen, keyboard and mouse. > > This is already possible right now, but it demands manual > configurations of files like xorg.conf and lightdm.conf (there is > currently a bug in lightdm but old versions work fine), > pulse/daemon.conf and even fixing some permissions in /dev/dri. There > are also some small problems I could not solve like allowing both > seats to mount usb drives (in my current setup only the first seat is > able to control pluggable devices, cdroms, etc). > > I do think that proper support for multiseat would be a killer feature > for Ubuntu. Whenever one of my friends come to my place and they look > at my setup they all look amazed craving that their window machine > could do the same. Right now I can not really tell them to try Ubuntu > to get this feature as it is very complicated to setup and can be > easily broken in an update (like right now it is broken in Precise). > If this change our friends much find a very compelling reason to try > Ubuntu. > > best, > > Paulo > > Obs1: If needed I can write a long email (or update the wiki) with > details on how is my system configured so you can give it a try. > > Obs: I have found out that fedora is trying to push for easier > multiseat configurations with a special USB device that works as a > video card. Maybe we can cooperate with them: > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/multi-seat > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=plugable_multiseat_kick&num=1 > > -- > Paulo José da Silva e Silva > Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação > (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) > Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil > > e-mail: pjssi...@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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