[bch]

> It's actually a lot more work than you'd think to support this...

Like: how would one support multiple keyboards? Is there an experimental or logical model for that?

[anilgulecha]

Multiple keyboards is trivial - unless you meant multiple active cursors. (If you've used a USB keyboard attahced to your laptop - you've already experienced multiple keyboards. Both work.)

Multiple mice is esoteric.

[silon42]

Multiple mice (1 pointer) is not esoteric at all... I have a completely normal scenario with 3 (normal mouse, track pad, track point) right now.

And at home, I have a mouse on the left side of the keyboard and another one on the right.

[anilgulecha]

Given the example, I meant multiple cursors. I assumed it would have been obvious.

[wongarsu]

It's not obvious if your core statement is "multiple keyboards is trivial".

Assuming that multiple mice obviously means multiple cursors while in the same comment assuming that multiple keyboards obviously does not imply multiple input cursors is in fact pretty confusing to me

[anilgulecha]

Fair point.

[bch]

Of course you're correct re: laptop and aux kb - I was thinking of "seat" (and multiple seats) being: "Wayland seat refers to one 'seat' at which a user sits and operates the computer."[0]

So a keyboard being attached to a seat, whose input might be associated w one active window, while another kb is associated with a different seat and different active window. Perhaps I'm just overthinking it.

[0] https://wayland-book.com/seat.html

[globular-toast]

If you have a USB mouse then you have multiple mice too, in that sense.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

It's not a direct answer, but Nucleus Coop (Windows only) allows playing multiple instances of the same videogame with different savefiles and allow using multiple keyboards and mice (is it mice for the hardware thing?)

It's an incredible hacky piece of software that does work by putting together like 10 oss. Incredible and cool.

They have some UX around this