%% Christopher Wolf <cwolf_at_micro.ti.com> writes:
cw> I've heard one can "nest" window managers somehow to allow debugging
cw> of one of them while the other kicks in to allow you to continue to
cw> move about, but could not find info on it. Anyone have some info on
cw> how it's done by the pro's?
This is what I do, and it's totally trivial... if you have the right
version of X :)
The newer X's (I think starting with X11R6 or X11R6.1) come with a
"nexting X server", called Xnest. Look for it in your /usr/bin/X11.
If you don't have it, you'll need a new version of X11.
Check the man page, but you simply start it and tell it to display on
your real X server; it opens a window inside of which is a whole X
screen. It creates a new display you can use with fvwm or whatever,
like "fvwm2 -display :1".
There may be other ways, but this is _far_ and away the simplest.
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Received on Tue Aug 19 1997 - 08:53:49 BST