Re: one desktop, two people, two keyboards and mice

[Jonas Ådahl <jadahl gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson via desktop-devel-list wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 07:25 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 07:08:51PM +0000, Richard Henwood via desktop-devel-list wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > I have a large monitor, and I would like to use my computer with my child.
> > > My vision is for me and my child to have our own keyboards and mice. I
> > > imagine working away on 'my side' of the screen, while they are working on
> > > their side. Occasionally, I will 'reach across' and help them with what
> > > they are working on.
> >
> > As Niels already pointed out, multiseat is the word to look for here.
> > However, the most common documentation on multiseat you will find is for
> > separate sessions on the same host computer. The goal is to save on
> > hardware, not collaboration.
> >
> > If you google for MPX or Multi-Pointer X, that provides what you need and
> > it's been supported in X since 2008 or so. Should be immediately available
> > via:
>
> Is there anything like MPX supported in gnome-shell's wayland session?

We have started to add basic seat separation into the clutter fork (e.g.
ClutterSeat), but clutter has traditionally been single seat with a
single "device manager" which owns all input devices. To summarize,
we're still not there yet, but are moving in that direction.


Jonas

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