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SubjectRe: Multiple consoles
On 1/9/2012 4:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Phillip Susi, le Mon 09 Jan 2012 16:11:36 -0500, a écrit :
>> Does this make sense or am I missing something?
>
> It used to be planned, but nobody took the job, because X doesn't need
> this (see option -sharevts).

If you do that, you can't use vcs. AFAICS, there won't be any on the
second seat, and if you switch the first seat back to a vc, it will read
input from both keyboards. And what about magic-sysrq? A SAK on either
keyboard will kill the primary X won't it?
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