Re: [gdm-list] Multiseat status in 2.30

[Ian Freeman <ian ifreeman net>]

Brian wrote:
> The multiseat patches for ConsoleKit and GDM did not land in GDM 2.30.
> Ray, Jon and a few others did a code review of the patches and felt
> that there is more work that needs to be done before it is ready to
> land upstream.  However, Halton and I (who are working on the patch)
> are still awaiting feedback about what changes need to be made.  We
> are hoping that this can all be resolved in the 2.32 timeframe, so
> that GDM 2.32 should support multiseat.
> 
> For now, you need to build ConsoleKit and GDM with the multiseat
> patches yourself for multiseat support.  OpenSolaris builds GDM with
> these patches by default now, and perhaps other distros could
> consider doing so as well.  You might file a bug with your distro
> and suggest that they do this to make the feature available more
> early.
> 
> Brian

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536355#c16 implies that the gdm
display-configuration branch was merged into master. Is that incorrect?

Furthermore, does anyone have patched binaries for Ubuntu 10.04 ready?
Otherwise I will do so and try to provide testing.

-Ian