Xephyr binary up
Xephyr binary up
- Subject: Xephyr binary up
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:34:36 -0800
I've placed a binary of Xephyr up at http://people.freedesktop.org/~bbyer/x11app/
. For those who aren't familiar, it's an Xserver that runs within an
X window -- like Xnest, but newer and shinier.
Why?
Here are a couple of fun things you can do with it:
1. Fake fullscreen support:
$ Xephyr -ac -fullscreen :9 &
$ DISPLAY=:9 twm&
$ DISPLAY=:9 xterm &
Hit F8, drag to a different Space, and *bam*! You've got a fullscreen
X server on one of your Spaces.
2. Fake 8-bit color mode:
$ Xephyr -ac -screen 800x600x8 :9 &
$ DISPLAY=:9 twm&
$ DISPLAY=:9 xterm&
$ DISPLAY=:9 xdpyinfo
DISPLAY=:9 xdpyinfo
name of display: :9.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 70200000
X.Org version: 7.2.0
[...]
number of extensions: 27
[...]
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
print screen: no
dimensions: 800x600 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (7): 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 32
root window id: 0x47
depth of root window: 8 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 1, white 0
options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO
largest cursor: 800x600
current input event mask: 0xd0001d
KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask
EnterWindowMask SubstructureRedirectMask
PropertyChangeMask
ColormapChangeMask
number of visuals: 6
default visual id: 0x21
visual:
visual id: 0x21
class: PseudoColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
[...]
This is not to say that both of those are features that shouldn't work
in Xquartz, but some of you may be able to use this immediately.
(I'll post instructions on how to build it with the upcoming 1.2a8)
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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