Howto use Xnest

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

The hammer and chisel was for the impatient [:-)].

As mentioned previously,  you need to carefully go through startx, which
is a wrapper for xinit, and understand what was started when and why.
>From there you can craft a startxnest script that will deal with the
consequences of how X was started.

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:34, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> What does
> 
>   xhost :1
> 
> tell you?
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