ubuntu-multiseat team mailing list archive

[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Richard Hansen
<ubuntu-a7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>
> Interesting idea, but I'm hesitant to implement it myself because I
> suspect automatic multiseat support will largely make this an unused
> feature.  When automatic multiseat support is implemented, rather than
> this:
>
>     [SeatDefaults]
>     greeter-session=unity-greeter
>     xdg-seat=auto
>
>     [Seat:0]
>
>     [Seat:1]
>
> people will simply do something like this:
>
>     [SeatDefaults]
>     greeter-session=unity-greeter
>
>     [AutoSeats]
>
> and seat0 and seat1 will be used automatically as they are reported by
> logind.  Until automatic multiseat is implemented, it's not too
> obnoxious to require users to do this:
>
>     [SeatDefaults]
>     greeter-session=unity-greeter
>
>     [Seat:0]
>
>     [Seat:1]
>     xdg-seat=seat1
>
> I don't expect it will take very long to implement automatic multiseat,
> so this would only be a brief inconvenience.
>

My expectation was also that automatic mutl-seat would mean users would not
need any per-seat configuration. The only reason I have the per seat
configuration is so

a) Additional configuration that is not provided by systems like logind can
be specified, i.e.

[Seat:seat0]
autologin-username=fred

b) We can support multi-seat before such systems become completely
standardised.

--Robert