That's great but do you know why the patch was rejected in the first place? If the patch isn't up to standard I think you should at least raise it however Fedora does their package development so they can address the issue properly
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Have you tried submitting your updated fix to be included?
I've contended with multiseat issues over the years, there isn't much interest in keeping it maintained. I can certainly see why, it's not a very well used feature.
I love the feeling of just forking something to add your wild tiny feature. I forked LeechBlockNG to notify my friend when I pressed "Override" :)
Or finding a tiny bug in some software, then spending multiple hours learning their codebase so you can fix it. And then building and using your fork because they're too slow with merging it...
Using open source software + having enough experience and confidence to figure out most things (given enough time, of course) software-related is so empowering.
The open source community feels like the ultimate right to repair environment. You're right, it feels very empowering and fulfilling. Totally opposite of the frustration of dealing with often intentionally unrepairable products.
Thanks, you're making our World possible!
Awesome work. How well does multi seat work and how to get started with this? Sounds like magic..
I set it up a while ago and don't have a good resource for setting it up now. Once I got it set up it has worked well. But like I said it seems fragile. When I upgraded fedora a couple of years ago it broke. I think it might have been the wayland transition. I switched from Nvidia to AMD. But I'm not sure that's necessary. My wife and I have two workstations on one computer. It works well until it breaks (if you want to live with end of life software it may not break). For whatever reason multiseat doesn't seem to be a mainstream feature. But I like it and have been using it for many years.
https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO
Loginctl is the tool you use to assign hardware to different seats. Also I'm not sure every login manager supports it. I used GDM.
I am gonna give it a shot. This may sound strange but i am using KDE with GDM lol. Maybe it will help or hurt me not sure yet.
That's what I use too.
OSS is a corporate lie. What you are describing is free software. Freedom to modify and distribute