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Re: New lightdm packages with automatic multiseat support in main PPA

 

Great news! Glad to see it works for you now! Let's wait for review on our
merge into upstream proposal...

Kind regards,

CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM
QUIA MIRABILIA FECIT

Laércio


2014-08-18 16:32 GMT-03:00 pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx <pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I think I found out the problem.
>
> In my udev rules the master of seat rule for seat1 was wrong. I fixed
> it by setting a USB port as master of seat (instead of the graphics
> card, I am not being able to get the right devpath for the second
> graphics card for some reason).
>
> So now my lightdm.conf is basically empty as you said and it works.
>
> best,
>
> Paulo
>
> 2014-08-18 16:25 GMT-03:00 Laércio de Sousa <lbsousajr@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hum... How many seats are listed when you run "loginctl list-seats"?
> >
> > CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM
> > QUIA MIRABILIA FECIT
> >
> > Laércio
> >
> >
> > 2014-08-18 16:21 GMT-03:00 pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx <pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >> If I do that then lightdm only tries to start one seat.
> >>
> >> See the lightdm.log? How do I tell it that I want two seats?
> >>
> >> best,
> >>
> >> Paulo
> >>
> >> 2014-08-18 16:13 GMT-03:00 Laércio de Sousa <lbsousajr@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > If that's all you have in your lightdm.conf file, you can safely
> remove
> >> > it,
> >> > as property xdg-seat is automatically set. Those [AutoSeat:*] config
> >> > sections will only be useful for settings like autologin-user and
> >> > xserver-command.
> >> >
> >> > After cleaning up your lightdm.conf file, try to restart lightdm
> >> > service.
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> >
> >> > CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM
> >> > QUIA MIRABILIA FECIT
> >> >
> >> > Laércio
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2014-08-18 16:05 GMT-03:00 pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx <pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am afraid the new packages completely broke my setup. I tried do
> >> >> update my old lightdm.conf from
> >> >>
> >> >> ---- Original Lightdm.conf ----
> >> >>
> >> >> [Seat:0]
> >> >> xdg-seat=seat0
> >> >>
> >> >> [Seat:1]
> >> >> xdg-seat=seat1
> >> >> xserver-vt=0
> >> >>
> >> >> -----------------------------------------
> >> >>
> >> >> To what I thought should be the new file
> >> >>
> >> >> -------- New lightdm.conf -----------
> >> >> [AutoSeat:0]
> >> >> xdg-seat=seat0
> >> >>
> >> >> [AutoSeat:1]
> >> >> xdg-seat=seat1
> >> >>
> >> >> ----------------------------------------------
> >> >>
> >> >> But only seat1 starts. I don't know where to start to debug, as I am
> >> >> not sure about what may be happening. I tried to look at the
> >> >> /var/log/lightdm files, that I send attached. Almost everything looks
> >> >> the same when comparing seat0 and seat1, but the x-1-greeter.log
> seems
> >> >> to show problems that I don't know how to interpret.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any hints?
> >> >>
> >> >> Paulo
> >> >>
> >> >> 2014-08-15 17:15 GMT-03:00 Laércio de Sousa <lbsousajr@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >> > Hello there!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > After some days of tests with successfull results, I'm now moving
> our
> >> >> > latest
> >> >> > lightdm packages for trusty to Ubuntu Multiseat main PPA.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > These packages contain two important patches:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > * Implement automatic multiseat support. Custom settings for
> >> >> > automatically
> >> >> > added seats can be set in [AutoSeat:*] sections (example:
> >> >> > [AutoSeat:Foo]
> >> >> > will match logind seat ID "seatFoo"). Related bug #1190581
> >> >> >
> >> >> > * Add new seat option start-local-sessions, which can be explicitly
> >> >> > set
> >> >> > to
> >> >> > false in order to make lightdm start a bare (no greeter) X server
> >> >> > (needed
> >> >> > for Xephyr-based multiseat setups). Related bug #1356332
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Wiki page should be updated to reflect these new features. All
> >> >> > previous
> >> >> > manual seat configuration in lightdm.conf should be edited/removed.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > CANTATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM
> >> >> > QUIA MIRABILIA FECIT
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Laércio
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
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> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Paulo José da Silva e Silva
> >> >> Professor Associado, Dep. de Matemática Aplicada
> >> >> (Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Dept.)
> >> >> University of Campinas - Brazil
> >> >>
> >> >> Web: http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~pjssilva
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Paulo José da Silva e Silva
> >> Professor Associado, Dep. de Matemática Aplicada
> >> (Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Dept.)
> >> University of Campinas - Brazil
> >>
> >> Web: http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~pjssilva
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Paulo José da Silva e Silva
> Professor Associado, Dep. de Matemática Aplicada
> (Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Dept.)
> University of Campinas - Brazil
>
> Web: http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~pjssilva
>

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