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On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:21:14 +0100 |
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antlists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Two problems - I would like to run without X, but it seems that the |
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> greeters need X to run ... |
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The greeters do, but a simple login prompt doesn't... But from what I |
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can tell, you can't run multiseat (which I think is the term for what |
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you're wanting to do) without running X, Wayland, or Mir. The virtual |
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terminals while you can switch between them, assume a single "user" |
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attached to it. |
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> Also I want to run a multi-user system. I know you can put multiple |
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> monitors on one graphics card, and that gives you a multi-head |
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> system, but I've got TWO graphics cards. I want to plug in two |
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> keyboards, two mice, and have two users sitting there. |
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This sounds like what you are describing is what this Ubuntu page[1] is |
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calling multiseat. This appears to require having some Windowing |
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system though it may not be true any more. The Gentoo Multiseat |
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documentation[2] indicates it may not be required. |
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> From what I can make out, this isn't possible with sddm. Lightdm |
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> looks like it might be possible, but there isn't a man page, and I |
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> haven't installed it so I can't find out what's what. |
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The Gentoo page indicates that LightDM and SDDM both support multiseat |
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with either elogind or systemd used. I'm not sure what login manager |
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you're using, as that may be an issue. Consolekit is largely |
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unsupported, |
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> Or can I fire up two instances of greetd? One on eg vt7 and the other |
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> on vt8? If so, how do I configure vt7 and vt8 to be my two different |
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> screen/keyboard/mouse combos? |
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This appears to "not work" as the VTs assume a single seat. I honestly |
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thought that something like this was possible. |
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> Lightdm also says it will do vnc, but again, the lack of |
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> documentation... |
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I have little idea about this. |
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> And lastly, I remember something about waypipe. How easy is it to |
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> link Windows and linux with waypipe? |
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I'm not sure what options are available for running waypipe on Windows. |
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My search doesn't show anything obvious. That probably would be the |
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question to answer about that. From what I can tell about Waypipe, is |
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if it's running, it should be easy to connect between machines |
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relatively easily, though it's still another layer to keep in mind. |
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> I know I'm asking a lot, but I tend to find documentation makes sense |
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> only after you already know what it's saying ... :-) I'm hoping for a |
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> "cookbook" style approach, but I don't expect much of that because I |
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> know what I'm doing isn't very common ... |
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The best I can tell about anything "cookbook" is that a big part of why |
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that doesn't really exist is even with online stuff, by the time |
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someone has managed to set stuff up with the current state of things, |
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and be able to write out the documentation, that likely won't work with |
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what someone new might be facing. |
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I hope my looking into it (mainly because I actually want to know how |
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difficult it would be to setup, if that's what I was wanting to do), |
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can be helpful to you. |
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[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multiseat |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Multiseat |
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