Hello I would like to introduce to everybody a small piece of software that I have been working on for a while which makes it possible to configure a multiple seats without getting caught in a web of configuration files and command line prompts. I named it "EasySeats", and that's exactly what it is for - making multiseat easy. I noticed that there really weren't any up-to-date utilities for this purpose, so I wanted to make one. There have been other attempts at this in the past, but any that I found seemed to be unmaintained and did not work.
To demonstrate not just how easy EasySeats is, and also how multiseat functions even on low end hardware, I have a video that I put up on YouTube to demonstrate how to configure, expectations during a reboot, and what happens when you return multiseat back to single user functionality. I recorded this particular video "the long way" because when I initially went to go set up multiseat for testing, no such thing existed that I could find. There were a handful of partial videos that I found but that quite frankly left a lot to be desired IMHO, and then there are the excessively long how-to articles on various distro's wikis that make multiseat setup appear more complicated than it is or has to be.
I just wanted something simple. More than anything, that's the benchmark and goal. Get it and go, no fumbling around. The video is useful, however, in that I set up the second seat and let it play FreeDoom demo while I open a few websites to hopefully demonstrate a performance expectation. The hardware is what I consider to be quite under-powered.
I hope this utility I have created can be of use to some of you and also the video as a tech-demo/how to. There are other multiseat videos on my channel for anyone interested.
To demonstrate not just how easy EasySeats is, and also how multiseat functions even on low end hardware, I have a video that I put up on YouTube to demonstrate how to configure, expectations during a reboot, and what happens when you return multiseat back to single user functionality. I recorded this particular video "the long way" because when I initially went to go set up multiseat for testing, no such thing existed that I could find. There were a handful of partial videos that I found but that quite frankly left a lot to be desired IMHO, and then there are the excessively long how-to articles on various distro's wikis that make multiseat setup appear more complicated than it is or has to be.
I just wanted something simple. More than anything, that's the benchmark and goal. Get it and go, no fumbling around. The video is useful, however, in that I set up the second seat and let it play FreeDoom demo while I open a few websites to hopefully demonstrate a performance expectation. The hardware is what I consider to be quite under-powered.
I hope this utility I have created can be of use to some of you and also the video as a tech-demo/how to. There are other multiseat videos on my channel for anyone interested.