Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 14:09 +0200 schrieb Verner Kj�rsgaard: > Onsdag 15 juni 2005 08:58 skrev Don Robertson: > > Hi list, > - this is REALLY interesting. I knew the X :1 -query IP-OF-XDMCP-SERVER > trick. > Use it all the time for checing out things and debugging. But I don't know, > what is "Xnest" ?? > - will someone enlighten me?
Xnest is a virtual X server, that looks very much like vncclient: It is a window on your running X desktop which - to the network and client side - looks like a regular screen with keyboard and mouse. Funny thing about it is that you can give it any geometry you like, and for example run gnome as user "a" inside a kde session as user "b".... just run Xnest :1 -query your.server.ip -geometry 800x600 and there you go: login screen that allows to login as another user, or for another session type (it's often a bad idea to log in with the same user you have at the foreground at that moment, but you probably knew that already). You can also use Xnest without the -query parameter, like Xnest :1 -geometry 800x600 & DISPLAY=:1 xterm & will bring up a "X" window with a single xterm, without any window manager (call icewm inside that xterm to use that as window manager, for example). No idea though wether copy and paste works across that, and sometimes it does weird things to non-us-keyboard mappings. Beware ;-) Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
