[GLLUG] X in a desktop window

[Michael George]

"Xnest," that's the one!  Thank you Jonathan!

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:25:39PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:08:33PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> > A couple years ago I remember reading about an X application that was an
> > Xserver running in a window of another X session.  It's intention was to
> > be able to develop or configure a different desktop while running one's
> > main desktop.
> > 
> > I can't remember what it is or was and googling hasn't found it for me
> > yet.  If anyone here knows of this software, please let me know what it
> > is. 
> 
> You probably heard about Xnest, athough these days you'd probably be
> better off using Xephyr
> (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/), which supports
> modern X extensions like compositing, even if your native X driver
> doesn't. 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

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