On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 03:43:43PM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > Is there some way of running a command from a shell that gives the > command a working X environment (so that it can make the figure), but > hides that environment from me (so that I can keep designing a circuit, > answering my mail, or whatever it is that engineers do)?
Xnest is a possibility. It's an X11 application that is both a client and server; in other words, a completely self-contained X11 environment inside of an X11 application running under the "real" server on your system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnest You could start up a new Xnest, and then export the appropriate $DISPLAY environment variable value to make: Xnest :10 DISPLAY=:10 make my_web_site Then any X windows opened by make or its child processes will remain contained within the Xnest window. -- Paul _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug