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[Richard Hansen <ubuntu-a7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-02-20 06:35, Laércio de Sousa wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> Version 209 of systemd was just released. The complete announcement is
> available at:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-February/017146.html
> 
> A key point for us:
> 
>         * logind has been extended to support behaviour like VT
>           switching on seats that do not support a VT. This makes
>           multi-session available on seats that are not the first seat
>           (seat0), and on systems where kernel support for VTs has
>           been disabled at compile-time.

Excellent!  I knew this was in progress, but I didn't know it was this
close to being complete.

If I understand correctly this work was led by David Herrmann.  He has a
blog post explaining how it works:

http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/sane-session-switching/

> 
> Of course, we must wait for Xorg/Wayland/DEs/whatever to gain support
> for this feature before we can get full user-switching in non-seat0
> seats.

I imagine the display manager will play a role in all of this.  I'm not
sure what changes would be required to support this feature, but it'd be
nice to submit some patches for LightDM.

> Hans de Goede @ Red Hat is working hard to integrate new logind
> features to Xorg server.

Do you have any links to mailing lists posts about the Xorg changes?

Thanks,
Richard