I tried that way, but it fails because gnome says I am already running a
session manager and quits.
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:38, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Will Backman wrote:
>Running up2date XFree86-Xnest --nosig
>Running under gnome.
>Xnest :1&
>
>Gives me a windows that is smaller than full screen, which is ok.
>If I maximize the window, the Xnest root window does not expand as
>expected, but I am now unable to move the mouse outside the smaller
>confines of the root window. Is this normal for Xnest?
Yes.
Also, that's not the most useful way to invoke Xnest either...
Might want to use:
startx -- $(which Xnest) :1
That starts up the actual desktop/wm/etc.