F20 Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE DM

Marc Deop i Argemí marc at marcdeop.com
Mon Jul 15 16:32:51 UTC 2013


On Monday 15 July 2013 13:34:58 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 15.07.13 13:17, Martin Briza (mbriza at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > >BTW, I have some more multi-seat hardware to give away to folks who want
> > >to add true automatic multi-seat to stuff like display managers.
> > >
> > >It's a USB box that will give you an VGA/DVI port + audio, plus
> > >connectors for kbd/mouse. So you just need to connect a display, mouse
> > >and keyboard to it, and then plug it into your existing machine and
> > >should have a second seat wihout any configuration. This works
> > >out-of-the-box for GNOME/gdm systems. If you guys want to make this work
> > >for KDE too, then I can pass you that hardware. It's free, you can keep
> > >it, but I'd preferably like to send this to Europe only.
> > >
> > >It's hardware you can use to implement this stuff:
> > >
> > >http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat/
> > >
> > >(This offer stands for everybody who hacks on things like this,
> > >regardless which desktop environment you hack on.)
> > >
> > >Lennart
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks for the offer! Even though I'd love to have the device for my
> > personal use, it won't be necessary. I have borrowed one of the
> > devices in our office to write basic multi-seat support for KDM, so
> > you can distribute it to other folks who'd want to add the support
> > to other DMs.
> 
> Hmm, any chance you can connect me with somebody from the KDE community
> who might need such a device and would do something nice with it?
> Somebody who wants to work on some display manager, or maybe on some
> graphical tool to reconfigure seats or so? 
> 
> I am trying so hard to be nice to the KDE community, but nobody wants my
> presents! ;-)
> 
> Lennart
> 
> 

Why not contact them directly at: kde-devel at kde.org or at #kde-devel in freenode.net?

Regards,

Marc Deop


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