Re: Xephyr instead of Xnest

[Ander C. de O. <an...@c3...>]

Michael Pardee wrote:
> We have been experimenting with multiXnest, and it works, but has a
> few minor shortcomings. (I want to stress that we are extremely
> grateful to Ander for creating multiXnest, the functionality it
> provides is amazing and VERY useful.)
 >
> ...
 >
> 4. some screensavers crash it (easy workaround -- disable fancy screensavers!)
> 5. no keyboard led support (this one is important for commercial applications)
Actually, there is an updated version of multiXnest in the webstie with 
suport for leds. Aparently, the Scroll Lock led does not work.

> So multiXnest is fine for now, but looking to the future we should
> probably be working with Xephyr, (
> http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xserver/xserver/hw/kdrive/ephyr/README?view=markup
> )
> to run nested X servers.
We're started working with Xephyr. As soon as we have something useful, 
we'll post it here.

Ander