setup for 2 users simultaneously

[binary_dreamer]

Hi. i do have a laptop that runs ubuntu 12.04.
the need is for a user to work on the laptop and a second user to work on the monitor attached to the VGA and keyboard/mouse attached to usb.
the 2 sessions will be ordinary users using office utilities, nothing extreme.
is there a way to make the forementioned configuration?

[omeomi]

You might want to check this out: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX

[sudodus]

You might want to check this out: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX

Interesting with MultiseatX but

... there are several different ways to achieve multi-seat; in practice there are very few approaches which are both simple and stable.

It might be a good idea to get a cheap second-hand computer and run a light-weight system, for example Lubuntu. You could use that system as a stand-alone system or use it to log in remotely with

ssh -X user@server

, or use a remote desktop like rdesktop or remmina. You could also limit the networking to file sharing with samba or sftp.

[binary_dreamer]

hi. thanks for the replies. multiseat seems good, i will give it a try and come back with replies.

the second computer is out of the scope for this project.