On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 02:48:51PM -0400 I heard the voice of Steve Litt, and lo! it spake thus: > > I could recommend xnest, but not until I solve some of its problems. > First, it's horribly underdocumented --- I spoze I could fix that. > But also, ctwm acts funny within it. First is the deficiency also > shown by ctwm -w: hotkeys are intercepted by the base server > (display :0) before going to xnest (display :1), so hotkeys are out.
Yes, that's a general side effect (I wouldn't call it a "problem" and I'd hesitate a little at "deficiency"; it's just how you'd expect a normal window to work). That only impacts working on stuff relying on keybindings you're already capturing in the "outside" WM; depending on your use case, that may be anywhere on the spectrum of "totally unworkable" to "utterly unnoticeable". However, do note that xephyr _does_ do full kb/mouse capturing, like a lot of VM's, so it can sit in that role. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
