Halton Huo wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 00:20 +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
>> Halton,
>>
>> Again, a better fix would be to check if Xephyr or Xnest is available
>> in configure. It should be an upstreamable change.
> Laca,
>
> Xephyr/Xnest is not needed during building time. It need to be in $PATH
> during run-time. Xephyr is recommenced replacement for Xnest, I'm trying
> to persuade maintainer to accept this idea.
Then couldn't you at run time try execing Xephyr first, and if that fails,
try execing Xnest instead? Xephyr is much newer than Xnest, and not found
on many older systems. (We only have it in S10U4 and later for instance.)
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