Tuomas Jormola wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a problem finding out how to run programs like Xnest and xmon. > > > > The manual for Xnest tells me to run "Xnest :1" to start the server then > > "xterm -display :1" to connect a client to the server. This dose not work > > as the server has started with some over restrictiv configuration and I > > have not found out how to turn this off. > I struggled with this same issue a while ago and I discovered that "Xnest > -auth /dev/null :1" would do the trick. I know this is not the right way > to do it but it works so I didn't bother to find out the correct way to > disable authentication.
This works for Xnest but I could not get xmon to run using this trick. Funny that nobody knows how this authentication actually works :)
