Re: one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...
hi ya david
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, David Morse wrote:
> I would like to take my rediculously over-powered computer, and have it
> usable by two people at the same time. I'd like to hook up two
> monitors, two keyboards, and two mice, and run a display manager like
> xdm on each monitor. I vaguely recall some hooks for this in X, like
> saying 'xterm -display ork:0.0', where if I changed the '0.0' to '1.1'
> I'd get the second monitor and keyboard on that particular host. But I
> forget what this is called.
>
> "Multi-head" seems to imply "mono-body" -- one user, one mouse, one kbd,
> just two monitors.
>
> I guess I want to know THE REAL NAME for "Multi-body" -- two users, two
> mice, two kbds. (err... and one video card with multiple VGA adapters).
eveyrbody has the equivalent of a cray-I on their desk and its just
for playing games in the office :-)
you're looking for backstreet ruby and its equivalents
http://www.Linux-1U.net/X11/Dual
( see the multi-user section for links to howto's )
c ya
alvin
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