Re: [Thinstation-developer] Xnest & X & session problems

[Mike E. <km...@ke...>]

Just my 2 cents: Running RC2 at work with iceWM, xnest works as expected. 
At home I have newer RCs, but I'm behind a NAT so I can't test (as X is a 
server).

Mike 

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Trevor Batley wrote:

> Miles,
> 
> I have been playing with my xnest & x session problems a little more.
> 
> They are based on setting up sessions as per our examples:
> AUTOSTART=Off
> SESSION_0_TYPE=icewm
> SESSION_1_TYPE=x
> SESSION_1_SCREEN=2
> SESSION_1_X_SERVER=192.168.1.2
> SESSION_1_X_OPTIONS="-indirect"
> SESSION_1_AUTOSTART=Off
> 
> (The example shows these as X, but I have used XNEST)
> SESSION_2_TYPE=xnest
> SESSION_2_XNEST_SERVER=192.168.1.3
> SESSION_2_XNEST_OPTIONS="-query"
> SESSION_2_AUTOSTART=Off
> 
> and running them both under replimenu and icewm.
> Under replimenu:
> x works
> xnest doesn't
> 
> Under icewm:
> neither works
> 
> If I comment out the SESSION_2_XNEST_OPTIONS line.
> Under replimenu:
> xnest doesn't work
> 
> Under icewm:
> xnest does work
> 
> The xnest.fullscreen script is 
> CMD_FULLSCREEN="Xnest :\$XNEST_NUMBER -geometry $SCREEN_RESOLUTION
> -query"
> which is why adding an OPTIONS="-query doesn't work 
> 
> Beyond all that, we should be able to run an xnest session from
> replimenu and an x session from under a wm.
> 
> Is it something to do with the getfreescreen function in
> thinstation.functions?
> 
> Here is the getfreescreen section of thinstation.functions
> 
> # Get Free XServer Number
> getfreescreen()
> {
> 	local X_NUMBER
> 
>         X_NUMBER=`ps -ef | grep "Xorg " | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1 -d" "`
> 	x_NUMBER=$x_NUMBER `ps -ef | grep "Xnest "  | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1 d" "`
>         let XNEST_NUMBER=0
>         for x in $X_NUMBER;
>         do
>                 if [ "$x" -ge "$XNEST_NUMBER" ] ; then
>                         let XNEST_NUMBER=x+1
>                 fi
>         done
> }
> 
> My scripting isn't that good, but I am assuming that there was an
> attempt to get this code to find the existing Xorg sessions & then the
> Xnest sessions & end up with all existing sessions. 
> 
> I can't work out how this will work. I can see how the X_NUMBER= line
> works and how the next line gets the same info for Xnest, but I am
> assuming that the x_NUMBER=$x_NUMBER <etc> is a concatenation (but is
> that how concatenation works?) Also, in this case shouldn't it be
> $X_NUMBER and then the for loop should be against $x_NUMBER.
> 
> I think I'm starting to get confused, so will leave it there at the
> moment....
> 
> 

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