Just a language clarification on the initial description: multi-seat and multi-head are not the same thing.
Multi seat:
- Many users
- One (or multiple) monitors per user, one keyboard, one mouse.
- Each user laid out as a distinct server layout in xorg.conf
- Each X "screen" should present a login screen
Multi head:
- One user
- Multiple hardware monitors
- One server layout.
- One X "screen" and one X "display" that spans these two monitors (though Xinerama might actually use two "displays").
It should be possible to have multi-head within multi-seat (eg two people on one system with two video cards, 4 monitors, two "screens", two "displays", two keyboards, two mice, etc)
Just a language clarification on the initial description: multi-seat and multi-head are not the same thing.
Multi seat:
- Many users
- One (or multiple) monitors per user, one keyboard, one mouse.
- Each user laid out as a distinct server layout in xorg.conf
- Each X "screen" should present a login screen
Multi head:
- One user
- Multiple hardware monitors
- One server layout.
- One X "screen" and one X "display" that spans these two monitors (though Xinerama might actually use two "displays").
It should be possible to have multi-head within multi-seat (eg two people on one system with two video cards, 4 monitors, two "screens", two "displays", two keyboards, two mice, etc)