On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:23:26PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:22:39AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:39 +0300
> > > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >... snipped long talk about VNC
>
> > I think many of the crashes of X servers in Linux are hardware-related,
> > and Xvnc will crash much less, typically.
> >
> > But Another question: Anyone tried X-Ray
> > <http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mkropfbe/xray.html> ?
>
> If you mention those two, then one obvious alternative should also be
> mentioned: Xnest (which comes, e.g. with XFree).
Xnest is indeed very cool, and I use it a lot, but it won't solve
the original posters' problem: if the hardware X server crashes, it
will take Xnest with it, but not Xvnc or X-Ray.
>
> Xnest is simply an X server that displays on another X server ("nested").
> Since you don't need to use any special hardware resource (like a virtual
> console, in the case of the original X server) you don't need to run it as
> root. I figure that a command-line like:
>
> Xnest :1
>
> will start a new nested X server on the current display to which you will
> be able to connect by setting the DISPLAY to ":1" .
>
> Xray seems to be originally based on Xnest
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
Didi
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