[Techtalk] Multiseat(Multi-X) automating scripts.

Gayathri Swaminathan gayathri.swa at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 15:54:00 UTC 2008


Hi there:

synergy is a neat solution that will meet your needs.

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/18/sharing-a-keyboard-and-mouse-with-synergy/

Have shared keyboard/mices with atmost 6 consoles before and it worked quite
well

Good luck!

Gayathri

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Digital Era <dgtlera at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Am planning to implement a multi-seat LINUX system where one PC will be
> serving 10 or so users together or what is known as a ten-seater.
>
> I ave been reading and googling for sometime now but it seems the only
> solutions available is to edit xorg.conf and gdm.conf manually or getting a
> commercial software like Userful.The manual configuration part is a hard nut
> to crack.Mapping 10 keyboards, 10 mice, 10 monitors(VGA cards) and 10 X is
> not a joke.!
>
> I would really appreciate if someone has scripts that automates the above
> said setup and is willing to share with me.
>
> I will be using either Fedora 7/8/9, Suse 10-10.3, Ubuntu 6.06-8.04 or
> Mandriva 2006-2008.1
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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