Try KDE wrote:
Kent West wrote:Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios:
3) one server and the rest of the workstations are dumb terminals, having keyboard, mouse, and monitor connected to the server via serial/firewire/usb/whatever.
I know the first two are possible. But I'd really like to pursue the third option. Is it possible? Practical?
No matter how dumb the terminal is, it has to act as a *local* X server. Meaning, it has more or less a local CPU for that purpose.
Right. But on a single station running Debian, I can start multiple X sessions (startx, startx -- :1, startx -- :2, etc). Seems like there'd be a way to route those displays to separate keyboard/mice/monitor setups, providing the physical connections are possible. For example, I can envision one CPU with two video cards, and two USB mice and two USB keyboards (or two serial mice, etc). Just re-pipe the stdio/stdout etc (or somesuch - I'm really hazy on how it'd be done exactly). The problem that I see here is that multiple video cards would quickly get unwieldy. However, if there were an inexpensive method to route video over firewire or a serial connection, I can see neat possibilities. But not having the experience or knowledge, I may just be smoking crack.
Kent
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