hi Francesco,
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Francesco Poli wrote:
> What I am trying to do (and failing miserably at) is to start an X
> session inside a throw-away sid chroot environment.
maybe worth mentioning also this approach: I'm using Xepyr to do this,
with some small drawbacks, having also implemented it as common
development flow inside the dyne:III SDK
here an excerpt of the relevant steps:
after a mount -o bind of the usual /sys /proc and /dev i'll start
Xephyr from the "host" system:
Xephyr -screen $resolution :1 &!
then chroot inside the "guest" system and give these commands:
export DISPLAY=localhost:1
and
gnome-session (or another window manager)
will start the gnome desktop inside a nested X window.
the drawback is that daemons listening on sockets will overlap and
stuff like gnome-settings will keep spitting back connections errors,
maybe someone has even a solution here so solve that.
FYI the dyneSDK I'm writing to absolve this and other tasks on top of
debian's live-build is here
https://github.com/dyne/dynebolic/blob/master/dyneIII/dynesdk
ciao
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