[GRLUG] Xnest/Xephyr

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:14:43PM -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> I need to login as another user with a fully-functioning X session.  I
> can accomplish this easily enough via
> 
>    gdmflexiserver --xnest
> 
> However, that produces a window of just 640x480???not enough to do much of
> anything with.  Google reveals lots of people asking the question but I
> cannot find a definitive answer on how to increase this window size.
> Even 1024x768 would be workable, though I would prefer just about
> anything up to 1920x1080.
> 
> One suggestion was to add the line
> 
>    [daemon]
>    Xnest=/usr/bin/Xephyr -screen 1280x800 -extension RANDR
> 
> to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf but that has no effect.  Any ideas?

Are you using gdm3?  Looks like it's now "NestedXserverCommand" in 
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf.  The default (on Debian unstable) calls 
"/usr/share/gdm/gdmXnestWrapper -br -audit 0".

-- 
Jeff DeFouw <mrj at plorb.com>

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