2009/8/21 Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it>: > I wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: >> would XineramaSls (see "man fvwm") help you here at all ? > > looks unclear from the man page, the following solution looks simpler
Likely I didn't understand what you were asking. > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Ethan Romander wrote: > >> The xnest X server and Xephyr [www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr] >> do exactly this. > > I tried Xnest because that could be installed in a click from our internal > repository. ,,, and was already there on the laptop. > > Presently I found a way of doing it as follows : > > Xnest :1 -geometry WxH+x+y & (1) Please use Xephyr instead. > fvwm -display :1 -f alternate.fvwm2rc & (2) > kill %1 (3) > > (1) This starts the nested server (alternate display :1) with the required > geometry. However I did not find in the doc a way to start > automatically applications in the nested server (like the .vnc/startup > in VNC ... another combination I was considering) Depends what you need to do. You can even start it outside of the Xnest: foo -display :1 (in your case.) > (2) therefore from OUTSIDE the nested server I start fvwm (I'd need to > use an alternate ad hoc config mainly to change the look of some > little sticky widgets I keep on screen), and then work inside the > xterm of the nested server. Full screen works nicely there. > > no way to combine 1 and 2 in a single step ? See above. Not sure what you're asking. > (3) I have not found a way to stop the nested server from inside. If I > use my root menu logout (maps to the fvwm Quit) I get a gray screen > in the nested server. So I kill it from the outside (could do also > from the outer window manager menu). > > Is there any fvwm command which can be used to terminate "graciously" > the server ? Or would an Exec exec killall Xnest do ? That would do. -- Thomas Adam
