I didn't explain myself well, now that i have time, i'll see to it.
I use Xephyr[1] to create a new X server in the current X host session.
Then i launch the application i which to use on the new display.
On 18-09-2013 07:49, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote:
This script it's just a automation for speed things (laziness)!
#!/bin/sh
# script to start a new server with i3
DISPLAY=:0
Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null&
sleep 2
DISPLAY=:1
i3&
but you can use just the command line's commands...
Hope it helps...
I use this:
# switch to icewm
xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1&
where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this
case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with
Ctrl-Alt-Fx.
I'm a bit fan of i3 and find it more productive in most cases but in my
desktop i run kde it all the pretty eyecandy "because i can", so some
times when i don't have time i open a terminal in kde and run:
$ Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null& #
$ DISPLAY=:1
$ i3
In the OP, he can change i3 for whatever i would like. This way he can try WM and DE like
"just another window" with the mouse.
I find some tutorial on the internet:
- http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-620003.html
- http://blog.pesa.se/2009/07/18/experimenting-with-window-managers/
- http://wenlong.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/awesome-xephyr-devils-pie/
- http://www.doublehops.com/tag/xephyr/
[1] - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/ : Xephyr is a
kdrive based X Server which targets a window on a host X Server as its
framebuffer. Unlike Xnest it supports modern X extensions ( even if host
server doesn't ) such as Composite, Damage, randr etc (no GLX support
now). It uses SHM Images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good
performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen
updates.
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