Re: [gdm-list] Multi-seat with multiple X-servers

[Halton Huo <Halton Huo Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:36 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Brian Cameron schreef:
> > 
> > Paul:
> > 
> >> Then it can become a real problem in the future for me...
> >>
> >> At this moment my distribution Debian is shipping GDM version 2.20.9 for
> >> the next release, but when they would switch to a newer version my setup
> >> does not work anymore (till hopefully version 2.30.x).
> > 
> > Yes, the lack of MultiSeat support is probably one of the main reasons
> > that many distributions have been slow to adopt the new GDM rewrite.  It
> > is an important feature for an important segment of GDM users.
> > 
> > We are working hard to get MultiSeat support into ConsoleKit and GDM.
> > If your distro updates to a version of GDM that doesn't work, then you
> > will either need to uninstall the new version of GDM and replace it with
> > the older one, or rebuild the new GDM with the patches.
> > 
> > We could use more testing of the new GDM with MultiSeat support, so if
> > you could try out the new patches with the new GDM, and let us know
> > how it works or what issues you encounter, then that would help to
> > ensure it gets upstream quickly.
> 
> I will see what I can do, but it is not easy.
> 
> The new Ubuntu will ship both 2.20 and (I expect) 2.28, maybe this makes
> it more easy to test.
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gdm
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gdm-2.20
I do not think the multi-seat feature is included in ubuntu GDM 2.28.

You need checkout the branches for the time being. Refer to
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2009-September/msg00006.html

Thanks,
Halton.