Hi, On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:06:23 -0700, Unmanifest D <unmanife...@gmail.com> wrote :
> I am building a new application - let's call it A (an X11 app) that > needs to use an existing X11 application (that I can't change) - > let's call it B. I would launch A and occasionally have to to fire up > B to do some stuff related to what A does/is doing. Ideally, I would > like B to be a sub-tab or somehow be 'contained within' A - to avoid > the two showing up as two disconnected applications on the desktop and > keep the two within the same 'container'. For lack of better options, > I decided to make Xephyr my container and use i3 to display A and then > B and switch back-n-forth etc. I'm open to any suggestions on better > ways of achieving this. Can't you embed B into A using Xembed? Here you have an example of a GTK2 window that can embed other apps (yeah, python2 + gtk2, it's outdated a bit, but you could find out an equivalent that works with your toolkit): http://www.moeraki.com/pygtktutorial/pygtk2tutorial/examples/socket.py If B does not support the Xembed protocol, you can run it inside Xephyr or Xnest (though this last one did not give good results for me). Proof of concept: $ python2 socket.py Socket ID= 35651617 $ Xephyr :1 -parent 35651617 $ DISPLAY=:1 xfontsel Cheers.
