[ale] Alternatives to Userful?

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Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm running FC10 on the office servers and Ubuntu 8.04 on an HP AMD-64
> notebook.    The notebook's video card can do independent displays
> internal/external.   I was really hoping to be able to use this on the
> road with a 2nd monitor and 2nd USB keyboard/mouse for a 2nd developer.
> 
> Userful (userful.com) sounds like it would be just the thing.    However
> they don't support AMD-64 bit Ubuntu anything and have no plans to do
> so.   Any other thoughts on how to get 2 independent users on a linux
> notebook?
> 

sounds kinda like you want a "Local Multi-User" desktop.

Here seems to be some info you might could look at:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat

and the one i remember (which is now dated) might give you some ideas also:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/


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