Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Jim Peters wrote:

> I'm clear about consoles - each of /dev/tty[1-6] and X-Windows in my example
> is a separate console, only one of which is displayed at any one time.
> 
> I'm also clear about heads in sense of a bunch of hardware all somehow in
> use together, by one person.
> 
> In your CAD example, those 8 keyboard/screen combinations could in fact be 8
> heads, if used independently (one person checking his mail, the next
> editing, whatever).
> 
> However, for your big everyone-work-on-the-same-screen example, they count
> as just one head, right, that has 8 users ?
> 
> Clear I think.

You got it :)

> When I was thinking about one keyboard and two monitors, I was thinking of
> two independent consoles being displayed on the two monitors.  If we have
> hot-keys to switch the keyboard from one monitor to the other, then
> effectively we have an emulation of two heads, since these two consoles are
> independent.  It's like constantly plugging the keyboard into one port or
> the other, or having a switch-box in the line to switch between the two
> ports.

I rather see one head form from the one keyboard and one monitor. The
other video display sort of hanges out their waiting for some userland app 
to grab it.

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