On 12/03/12 16:29, Laurence Tratt wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:53:44PM +0400, Alexei Malinin wrote: > >> Indeed, I ran two X servers at the same time a long time ago. >> But from time to time I have a need to do so (that is, to run one more X >> session on behalf of another person, without destroyingmy active X >> session)... > > I sometimes have to do this too, and similarly realised that running two X > servers on the same machine was rather difficult to get working. Based on a > program called xsandbox, I created a little script xcage: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/src/xcage/ > > Nested X sessions can be a little buggy -- at least on the machines I've used > them on -- but they're often better than the alternatives (e.g. VNC to > localhost).
Nested X sessions via Xnest or Xephyr are useful (but only for single man working on the computer) but they are not of full value (not complete) as startx/xinit sessions (i. e. several men cannot work simultaneously on the computer). PS. According to Wikipedia UNIX is a multitasking, _multiuser_ computer operating system, so it turns out that the loss of ability to run multiple startx/xinit sessions is equivalent to the loss of the essential UNIX feature- _multiuser_ support:( -- Alexei Malinin
