On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 22:26 -0400, Joshua Brickel wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to see if I can help strengthen one area of the debian > distribution. Always great to see someone volunteer to help Debian. :-) > That is its ability to support mulit-seat environments. I have a > computer with two video cards set up as a two seat system, but I am > finding bullseye to be quite buggy with regards to multi-seat. I'm > not sure if this is due to gnome or systemd/logind. But I would be > happy to run tests and provide log files to help resolve these issues > and try and determine what is going wrong. Issues I have found > include: > > When one seat is active (being used) but the other seat is left alone > for long enough (timeout period) the system has a tendency to > suspend, seemingly based on the seat not being used. I know > gnome has gsd-power, but I think it interacts with logind on some > level. > > Sometimes the seat with two monitors keeps going blank/black on the > screen, but any mouse or keyboard stroke seems to wake it up. This > is even if the seat is being actively used. > > When one logs in on the second seat, the first seat often is put into > screen lock mode (if it is being actively used at the time). > > If these issues are something your team would like to fix, or at > least determine if they are really gnome issues, I would be happy to > try and test ideas out for you, as well as take and send logs back. > I am not a professional programmer, but I have done some light > programming tasks throughout my career. > > Let me know if I can be of any service to your team. Do you think these issues should go to the debian-gtk-gnome team? Or should they go upstream to GNOME directly? Do you have any concrete error messages or log files that go with your issues? Those can be a useful source of information. Regards, Jeremiah > Regards, > > Joshua >
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