[ale] Alternatives to Userful?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Neal Rhodes wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I'm running FC10 on the office servers and Ubuntu 8.04 on an HP AMD-64
>> notebook.    The notebook's video card can do independent displays
>> internal/external.   I was really hoping to be able to use this on the
>> road with a 2nd monitor and 2nd USB keyboard/mouse for a 2nd developer.
>>
>> Userful (userful.com) sounds like it would be just the thing.    However
>> they don't support AMD-64 bit Ubuntu anything and have no plans to do
>> so.   Any other thoughts on how to get 2 independent users on a linux
>> notebook?
>>
>
> sounds kinda like you want a "Local Multi-User" desktop.
>
> Here seems to be some info you might could look at:
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat
>
> and the one i remember (which is now dated) might give you some ideas also:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/

Here's a link I've been saving for a while now on how to do this.
It's a little old, but well written:
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html

Michael