Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > > The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch
> > > among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different
> > > user (separation of privileges, like general browsing vs. admin &
> > > programming, vs. banking, etc, so that if one is compromised by a
> > > browser flaw etc, the other user accounts are unaffected.
> >
> > I would probably start with Xnest here.
>
> I've had better luck with a slightly hacked up Xephyr for this purpose.
Oh, hmm, I had forgotten about Xephyr. I like this bit from the man page:
The build gets a warning about 'nanosleep'. I think the various '-D'
build flags are causing this. I haven't figured as yet how to
work round it. It doesn't appear to break anything however.
Gives me slight pause that in apparently ten years, nobody has bothered to
resolve what appears to be a rather simple issue. I doubt Xnest is actually
any better with "Still crashes randomly." but at least random crashes sound
like a "hard" problem.
