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Is the Fedora Linux Multi-Seat Feature Abandoned?
2 points by MarkusWandel on March 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I've successfully run a multi-seat Linux machine for some time. It was easy to set up (with the "loginctl" command) and I thought great, now I have a use case for systemd and its ilk, this is easy!

Only now I wanted to upgrade to the latest software, so downloaded Fedora 31 and tried it out on a testbed machine. And Multiseat no longer works. This doesn't look like an edge case, it looks like an abandoned feature somehow. It still works in Fedora 30. The diffs between the two versions of GDM (source code) are extensive so not just anyone could fix that without considerable expertise. I've not found a usable replacement (for multi-seat login).

Markus



To be clear, the symptom I'm getting is that the second seat does not get a login prompt, and attempting to log in on the first seat in fact logs in the second, leaving the first screen without activity. Others have described the same symptoms.




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