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Its old yes, but the Freedesktop boys are doing it in a "new" way. This by using sofware to bundled a random set of devices into a single seat, and assigning sa
by digi_owl 10y ago
Its old yes, but the Freedesktop boys are doing it in a "new" way. This by using sofware to bundled a random set of devices into a single seat, and assigning said seat to a user on login based on the input device used. The old way was to hang dedicated hardware off serial ports and figure out the "seat" (if such a concept needed to be defined at all back then) that way.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoExactly right, the concept is timeless and the implementation choices change with the times. A similar moment of humor occurred when AT&T's U-verse product offering was bragging about sending your video signal to other TVs in your house wirelessly. So the next engineering question is "How does this make things we want to do, or have done, better or different?" I could imagine you could set up a very interesting pair programming setup that way, especially if you were projecting a common "third" monitor on the wall or something. That common monitor could show current status for both programmers like building/testing, source code state, etc.