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bryhhh · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 73 Location: /etc/passwd

My brain hasn't woken up yet so could somebody please remind me what the package is that allows you to start a new x session in a window.

A quick search of the forums and my portage cache has revealed nothing.

beowulf918 · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

While I don't have my gentoo box in front of me to answer your question, I found that having nested X sessions worked okay, but not as well as it could. What I found best for my uses was to, per the instructions in the XDMCP howto, modify my [gkd]dm configs to allow remote sessions. After that, I could have access to my desktop and environment from anywhere on my network via "X :1 -query 192.168.0.100".

James.

bryhhh · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 73 Location: /etc/passwd

What I was looking for shows up on the Kde kicker menu as "New login in a nested window".

Now that I've got home, I've discovered that my home box has this installed. The Kde menu editor tells me that the application is 'gdmflexiserver', which is part of the following package

beowulf918 · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

I don't like the clutter of a whole new desktop session dumped onto just one desktop. The scale isn't pretty to look at, and (I haven't played around with nesting to know if this is in fact true) it's not something that's convenient across a network. Even on an isolated machine, I find it's easier to have a fluxbox/enlightenment session on :1 where there are no vestiges of the :0 KDE session visible, and I can pretty much forget that it's there until the memory runs out.

In fact, I'm not really sure what the advantages are of having a nested session. What did you need it for, and how helpful have you found it?

James.