[Gllug] Multiple X servers

[Tethys]

Robert McKay writes:

>> Would it be possible to use the PS2 mouse connector (as I use a serial mouse
>> anyway) somehow as the second Keyboard connection?
>
>Don't know, but I believe it is possible to have multiple USB keyboards.

Yes, it is, but support for such a configuration i9s still a bit
sketchy. The GGI project had multiple keyboards/mice as one of their
goals, to make Linux suitable for kiosk use. They came up with
a hideously over engineered input handling system that required
non-trivial kernel changes. These changes weren't accepted by Linus,
and the GGI people toned down their approach somewhat. I believe their
libgii library handles multiple input devices. How they'd integrate
this with X11, I'm not quite sure. I suspect you'd need to use their
GGI-aware X server.

For a fairly comlpex way of getting multiple users on multiple heads,
see the following tutorial:

	http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3100/1/

Hopefully this'll get easier in time.

Tet

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