Patch for multiseat support

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 16 14:42:01 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 00:28 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 00:09 -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 3:18 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
> > > <nwhitehorn at icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > >> I have written a patch for supporting the -sharevts multiseat option found
> > >> on Linux, and thought some people here might be interested. It works well
> > >> enough (You can't switch back to the console while running multiseat X,
> > >> etc.)
> > >>
> > >> http://hep.uchicago.edu/~nathanw/bsd_init.c.patch
> > >>
> > >> (This is X.org bug 11179, for those who care)
> > > 
> > > Did this patch ever get commited?
> > 
> > I don't believe so -- at least I have never heard anything from anyone 
> > about it and my newish Xorg does not have it.
> > -Nathan
> 
> Ok, I've committed this upstream.  It don't think it will make it into
> server 1.6 though, so I'll probably add it to the port as well.

Correction... Looks like I did manage to get it into 1.6... Coming to a
desktop near you, soonish...

robert.

> robert.
> 
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