Re: [gdm-list] multiseat

["Yan Seiner" <yan seiner com>]

Is there a way to assign resources (keyboards, mice, cdrs, sound cards, etc)?

Right now I do it with a highly hacked up set of scripts and gdm 2.20 and
it works - mostly.

--Yan

On Wed, March 16, 2011 8:25 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> MultiSeat is not supported by GDM 2.21 or later, unless GDM is built
> with the patch in this bug:
>
>    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536355
>
> And if ConsoleKit is built with the patch in this bug:
>
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19333
>
> I am not sure if Ubuntu does this already or not.  If they do, you
> configure this via /etc/ConsoleKit interfaces and not via the
> GDM configuration file anymore.  If your system has an
> /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d directory, then this feature should work
> on your system.
>
> Here are some examples which show how you can configure it via the new
> interfaces:
>
>       Example 1: To start the ConsoleKit daemon
>
>       example% console-kit-daemon
>
>       Example 2: To configure ConsoleKit to not start a seat
>
>       To disable a seat, the administrator can set Hidden=true  in
>       the  .seat file. Edit the 00-primary.seat file as follows to
>       disable the default primary seat which normally runs on  the
>       system console.
>
>       For example, disabling the primary seat on  the  console  is
>       useful  if  the  administrator wishes to run GDM in headless
>       mode. This can be useful if the administrator wants  GDM  to
>       accept  XDMCP  remote displays but the server does not actu-
>       ally have a console.
>
>       [Seat Entry]
>       Version=1.0
>       Name=Primary seat
>       ID=StaticSeat1
>       Description=start one static local display at :0
>       Hidden=true
>       Devices=
>       Sessions=Local;
>
>       Example 3: To configure ConsoleKit to  start  multiple  ses-
>       sions on a single seat
>
>       To start two local displays: DISPLAY ":0" on vt7 and DISPLAY
>       ":1" on "vt8", edit the 00-primary.seat file as follows:
>
>       [Seat Entry]
>       Version=1.0
>       Name=Primary seat
>       Description=start static displays :0 on vt7 and :1 on vt8
>       Hidden=false
>       Devices=
>       Sessions=Local;Local2;
>
>       Then,      in      addition      to       the       original
>       /etc/ConsoleKit/sessions.d/Local.session  file, add the fol-
>       lowing /etc/ConsoleKit/sessions.d/Local2.session file:
>
>       [Session Entry]
>       Name=Local
>       Type=LoginWindow
>       Description=Local Login Screen
>       DisplayTemplate=Local
>
>       [Local]
>       display=:1
>       vt=vt8
>
>       Example 4: To configure ConsoleKit to start multiple seat
>
>       To start two seats: a local session on  DISPLAY  ":0"  using
>       "vt7" and another seat using a VNC session on DISPLAY ":64",
>       add a file /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/01-vnc.seat as follows:
>
>       [Seat Entry]
>       Version=1.0
>       Name=VNC seat
>       Description=start one VNC display on :64
>       Hidden=false
>       Devices=
>       Sessions=LocalVNC;
>
>       Add the /etc/ConsoleKit/sessions.d/LocalVNC.session file  as
>       follows:
>
>       [Session Entry]
>       Name=LocalVNC
>       Type=LoginWindow
>       Description=Connect to local VNC server running on same machine
>       DisplayTemplate=LocalVNC
>
>       [LocalVNC]
>       display=:64
>
>       Finally, add the /etc/ConsoleKit/displays.d/LocalVNC.display
>       file as follows:
>
>       [Display]
>       Type=X11
>
>       [X11]
>       Exec=/usr/X11/bin/Xvnc $display -auth $auth -query localhost
>
> On Solaris, we update the console-kit-daemon manpage with these
> examples to help people figure out how to do this.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 03/16/11 09:57 AM, Scott Serr wrote:
>> I'm doing some preliminary testing of Ubuntu 11.04 (Alpha3+Updates) to
>> replace my aging Ubuntu 8.04 Multiseat setup.  Multiseat was do-able in
>> gdm 2.20.5, but I would probably call it a hack.
>>
>> Is the current state of gdm 2.32.0 that it won't support multiseat?  Or
>> is it just that it's not some how a menu driven configuration option?
>>
>> I've read some posts for 2.32 that there are patches for multiseat.
>>
>> With or without the patches, where would I find configuration
>> information?  I'm familiar with gdm.conf hacks to add:
>>
>> [servers]
>> 0=Seat0
>> 1=Seat1
>>
>> etc...
>>
>> But things are very different now.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>> -Scott
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