LightDM - Feb 2014 - Lightdm, x11vnc two seats: VNC keyboard/mouse input only works if seat is active

Hi everyone,

I have Lightdm setup to run two seats:

XBMC (Seat:0) which uses my monitor
xfce (Seat:1) which uses virtual terminal 8
This way I can switch between them using Crtl-Alt-F7/F8

I use x11vnc to connect to display 1 (xfce) via VNC:

/usr/bin/x11vnc -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -forever -bg -rfbport 5900 -o
/tmp/x11vnc.log -display :1 -xkb

So far so good. I can connect via VNC to xfce but my mouse and keyboard input is
not recognized if the display of my server shows XBMC. If I switch to virtual
terminal 8 (Ctrl-Alt-F8) using the server keyboard then VNC will work. This is
not ideal. I want XBMC to be always be displayed on my monitor and access xfce
only via VNC.

There seems to be some kind of problem which prohibits keyboard/mouse input over
VNC if the virtual terminal is not active on the host.

Any ideas?

PS: I used -dk -dp to check if the keyboard and mouse inputs arrive at x11vnc
and they do. So that's not the issue.
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Sorry, no ideas.

LightDM doesn't setup the input so if you've successfully connected to
the
X server using the LightDM generated X authority (as you have described)
then it seems likely to be an X problem.

--Robert


On 13 February 2014 00:43, Christoph Gro? <gross at blubyte.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have Lightdm setup to run two seats:
>
>    - XBMC (Seat:0) which uses my monitor
>    - xfce (Seat:1) which uses virtual terminal 8
>
> This way I can switch between them using Crtl-Alt-F7/F8
>
> I use x11vnc to connect to display 1 (xfce) via VNC:
>
> /usr/bin/x11vnc -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -forever -bg -rfbport 5900
> -o /tmp/x11vnc.log -display :1 -xkb
>
> So far so good. I can connect via VNC to xfce but my mouse and keyboard
> input is not recognized if the display of my server shows XBMC. If I switch
> to virtual terminal 8 (Ctrl-Alt-F8) using the server keyboard then VNC will
> work. This is not ideal. I want XBMC to be always be displayed on my
> monitor and access xfce only via VNC.
>
> There seems to be some kind of problem which prohibits keyboard/mouse
> input over VNC if the virtual terminal is not active on the host.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> PS: I used -dk -dp to check if the keyboard and mouse inputs arrive at
> x11vnc and they do. So that's not the issue.
>
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