Xinerama and multi-seat

Posted May 4, 2011 20:22 UTC (Wed) by eean (subscriber, #50420)
In reply to: Xinerama and multi-seat by samlh
Parent article: Systemd and ConsoleKit

Well to get multiseat to work currently, you have to turn off the ability of X to automatically recognize HID stuff so that you can assign it manually.

Similarly I bet you'll have to turn off some of the systemd magic so that you can do whatever you do to get multi-card Xinerama to work (I assume you write your own xorg.conf?).

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Xinerama and multi-seat

Posted May 4, 2011 20:45 UTC (Wed) by samlh (subscriber, #56788) [Link]

> Similarly I bet you'll have to turn off some of the systemd magic so that you can do whatever you do to get multi-card Xinerama to work (I assume you write your own xorg.conf?).

Sure, I just hope they document how to demagic things. Not sure, but I expect there are a fair number of Xinerama users.

Yes, Xinerama is configured through xorg.conf. Essentially, you set up multiple "Screen"s and list their relative positions in "ServerLayout".