Secondseat - Have fun together on the same host

Secondseat lets you add a second keyboard and mouse to a new primary XInput, so you can use two dedicated pointers and type parallel in different windows at the same time. It is a small wrapper around the xinput CLI.

Prerequisites

• Minimal XServer version 1.20
• XInput must be installed
• Go installed

Install

go install github.com/katexochen/secondseat@latest

Usage

  secondseat [command]

Available Commands:
  add         Add input devices for a second user
  remove      Remove second input user
  help        Help about any command
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for secondseat

Use "secondseat [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Limitations

• Curser flickering when moving the one of the pointers.
• Sometimes the selection of windows doesn't work as expected.
• Some applications don't support multiple pointers and won't differentiate between the different input devices. Applies to:
  • Firefox (Chromium works)

Further information

• ArchWiki: Multi-pointer X