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Re: systemd 209 released

 

>> 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?

The discussion starts here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-December/039380.html

First version of Hans de Goede's patchset:
00 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039949.html
01 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039955.html
02 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039948.html
03 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039951.html
04 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039950.html
05 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039962.html
06 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039956.html
07 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039958.html
08 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039959.html
09 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039954.html
10 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039952.html
11 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039953.html
12 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-January/039957.html

Second version:
00
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040318.html
01
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040317.html
02
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040319.html
03
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040321.html
04
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040322.html
05
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040320.html
06
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040323.html
07
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040324.html
08
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040325.html
09
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040326.html
10
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040327.html
11
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040328.html
12
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040330.html
13
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040329.html
14
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040331.html

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Laércio


2014-02-20 16:40 GMT-03:00 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
>
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