Re: Multi seat with nested servers?

2022-12-09 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:47:45 -0500 Phillip Susi wrote: > Only one Wayland server can control a given GPU, but if you have two > monitors on one GPU, isn't it possible to run a root server that > displays two nested servers each on their own monitor to get a multi > seat setup? Sure. > Has anyon

[ANNOUNCE] libei 0.4.1

2022-12-09 Thread Peter Hutterer
libei 0.4.1 is now available. This time with the tag pointing to the right commit. See below for the 0.4 announcement below which has all the interesting bits. On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 03:15:30PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > libei 0.4 is now available. libei is a library to send > Emulated Input

Re: Multi seat with nested servers?

2022-12-09 Thread Phillip Susi
Pekka Paalanen writes: > There are two different approaches: > - nested compositor presents to the root compositor which presents to KMS > - nested compositor uses KMS leasing offered by the root compositor, > and presents to KMS directly > > In the leasing case, the root compositor may not n

Re: Multi seat with nested servers?

2022-12-09 Thread Simon Zeni
On Fri Dec 9, 2022 at 10:09 AM EST, Phillip Susi wrote: > How does this leasing work? Does it lease the entire GPU or can it > lease only one display? I would imagine it would be the entire GPU, in > which case you couldn't lease it to both servers. Using the drm-lease-v1 [1] protocol you can le