Patch for multiseat support

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 16 15:30:44 PST 2008


Robert Noland wrote:
> 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.
>   
Thanks!
-Nathan


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