has the software that lets that work.In most window managers (WMs) that allow for multiple workspaces, additional monitors simply increase the size of each workspace.
You can even have one computer be Linux and the other be Windows or a Mac if you wish.
This probably isn't what you're after, but you can also have multiple computers with their monitors next to each other and share one mouse and keyboard between then, having them work like a multiple monitor setup. That page will help set it up if you want to. If you want several people logged into one machine, each with their own display, mouse and keyboard - then yes, they'll generally each have their own X server. (Whether you use their distribution or not, Archlinux does a really good job of documenting stuff!) Here's some documentation on doing anything more complicated than your basic dual monitor setup. It's a bit complicated, but it can be done. You can even run multiple X servers with multiple monitors and multiple keyboards and mice. You can also run more than one X server at a time, either tying one to a given monitor or switching between then when you switch between their virtual consoles. (Or maybe it is? Do you want to have one person use one computer with two or more monitors that all act like one monitor? If so, then that's your typical dual monitor setup and people do that all the time nowadays and most modern Linux distributions will handle it natively as long as all monitors are plugged into one video card. And the mouse and keyboard are shared between them. You certainly can run multiple displays with one X server - that's what most people using two or more monitors are doing. On Linux, you could write a multiplexing input driver in the input layer to share input devices, but that's a different layer altogether than the X server.
You can also nest some X servers ( Xephyr, xpra.), so input goes to your main current X server, and gets passed on to the nested X server in a window and the output of the nested X server is displayed in a window by the main X server. X servers can hand hardware off, which allows you to run X servers on multiple VTs and switch between them (this is how simultaneous logins are handled e.g. Using multiple displays (in the X sense) requires multiple X servers that's how you get multiple seats too.Īs far as sharing goes, I think each X server expects to "own" the devices it's using at any given time, so you can't have input from a single keyboard going to multiple X servers simultaneously, or the output of multiple X servers combined on a single monitor. From the user's perspective, every X server has a display name of the form: hostname:displaynumber.screennumberĮach X server has one display (which may include multiple monitors, or even no monitors at all).
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