[Exeter] Multihead X

[Andy Collyer]

What an excellent idea.

Based on a couple of the conversations on Friday and my own gaping 
knowledge holes, I was also thinking we ought to have "how to build 
linux from source" and "grub how-to" sessions.  Any volunteers?

Kind regards,
Andy Collyer


On 17/09/2012 20:32, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was thinking today about possibly interesting things to play with at 
> the Exeter LUG meetings and one thing I've played with in the past 
> (rather unsuccessfully I might add) is multi-head X.
>
> Basically the idea is you have a PC with one or more graphics cards (I 
> think it might be possible with multi head graphics cards too but 
> without things like 3D or video acceleration) and multiple keyboards 
> and mice attached and each display/keyboard/mouse combo have their own 
> session.  In a way it's a bit like LTSP but on the one machine.
>
> I was thinking if we had enough hardware (such as PCI graphics cards 
> and sound cards) we could maybe try and get something running.  It 
> could be a good option to offer to local groups that might want a PC 
> or two (and I'd like to get something like this working to stop my 
> kids squabbling over who uses the family PC :-P).
>
> Rob
>
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