[ale] Running X, in an X window?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 2 01:27:47 EDT 2006


xnest

-Jim P.

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I know that I have seen it done before, and for whatever reason, I cannot 
> find the information on Google to tell me what I want to know -- I want to 
> start a new X.org server, and put it in, say, an 800x600 window running on 
> my current X session.  Why, you may ask?  I want to start testing KDE 4 -- 
> so I have a desktop that I am going to use to build/run KDE 4, and I want 
> to run it in an X window to test it, and have it display on my laptop while 
> I am using it.  So I would be running X already, using KDE 3.5, and then 
> run a new X window where I would be using KDE 4 and only locally displaying 
> it.
> 
> Does anybody know off-hand how to do that?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Mike
> 
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