Multi-Seat Support Running Well In Wayland/Weston

[Nille]

I Love Multiseat but the Configuration is one of the most annoying things.

[rikkinho]

?

i cant see practical use for this but ok look nice

[schmidtbag]

I Love Multiseat but the Configuration is one of the most annoying things.

There are extremely easy ways of doing it with X that involve just a small handful of command line options.


Personally, I'm impressed with how much better wayland is doing multiseat than X. But, since Wayland is a relatively new project, it makes sense why it could so easily handle these new features. Now all I want is nested weston with GPU acceleration.

[Nille]

There are extremely easy ways of doing it with X that involve just a small handful of command line options.

Its not only the display. input, USB, sound etc is also required.

[89c51]

just a small handful of command line options.

And this makes it utterly useless.

[ChrisXY]

Multi keyboard and multiple mouse too please!

(and being able to pair mouse with keyboard, and change pairing while running.)

Not sure if you know this. If so, maybe others are interested:
xinput2 on X supports that, it's called multi pointer X / MPX.

xinput list shows you available devices and ids.
xinput create-master "foo" creates a second "master" device input devices can be attached to
xinput list again, to see the new master id, e.g. "17" for pointer and "18" for keyboard and list shows them linked together
xinput reattach 21 17 attaches e.g. a mouse to the new master. You have two pointers now

As far as I have understood it, each "master" can theoretically have its own focus and it's kind of working, but most X window managers don't really seem to support multiple focusses. There's a demo window manager that doesn't compile anymore though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUOn_nJmRA

Damn, 6 years old now.

[ElderSnake]

And this makes it utterly useless.

Then by all means write a GUI for it..

[Nuc!eoN]

Let me be the first to admit I have no idea what this thing is good for.
Gaming?! CNC?! Tentacle Monsters?!

i cant see practical use for this but ok look nice

Maybe for multi-touch?

[89c51]

Then by all means write a GUI for it..

Sadly i am useless when it comes to coding.

[halfmanhalfamazing]

Exactly

just a small handful of command line options.

And this makes it utterly useless.

Exactly.

Linux just isn't a command line operating system anymore. Sure, it can be driven that way, but one of the reasons why (even with a paltry 1.25% marketshare) it is growing faster than other OSS competitors is because so many distros take the GUI seriously and are actually welcoming to new users.

BTW, wouldn't that new KScreen be a good GUI configuration tool for true multi seat?