Howto use Xnest

[Jim Bauer]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 18:05, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > You have been bitten by the wonders of Xauth.
> >
> > What you need to do is work your way through the X start up
> > sequence to
> > gain an understanding of what gets started when and why.
> >
> > For the impatient, give this a try:
> >
> > (1) become root
>
> But why do I have to become root? Why can't I just start Xnest from my
> running session? That's the problem. It's easy to hammer and chisel it
> using root....
>
> > (2) startx  --  /usr/X11R6/bin/Xnest  :1

As non-root,

Xnest :1 &
xterm -display :1

worked for me.