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I didn't explain myself well, now that i have time, i'll see
to it. I use Xephyr[1] to create a new X server in the current X host session. Then i launch the application i which to use on the new display. On 18-09-2013 07:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: This script it's just a automation for speed things (laziness)!On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote: #!/bin/sh # script to start a new server with i3 DISPLAY=:0 Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null & sleep 2 DISPLAY=:1 i3 & but you can use just the command line's commands... Hope it helps... I'm a bit fan of i3 and find it more productive in most cases but in my desktop i run kde it all the pretty eyecandy "because i can", so some times when i don't have time i open a terminal in kde and run:I use this: # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 & where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. $ Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null & # $ DISPLAY=:1 $ i3 In the OP, he can change i3 for whatever i would like. This way he can try WM and DE like "just another window" with the mouse. I find some tutorial on the internet: - http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-620003.html - http://blog.pesa.se/2009/07/18/experimenting-with-window-managers/ - http://wenlong.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/awesome-xephyr-devils-pie/ - http://www.doublehops.com/tag/xephyr/[1] - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/ : Xephyr is a kdrive based X Server which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer. Unlike Xnest it supports modern X extensions ( even if host server doesn't ) such as Composite, Damage, randr etc (no GLX support now). It uses SHM Images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen updates. -- __________________________________________________________ Bandarra "Enjoy while you can 'cos you'll never know when it'll end" |