can't get Xnest to work against Fedora 7

Hugh Caley hughc at aldon.com
Thu Nov 1 20:20:41 UTC 2007


>       * 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Frank Cox wrote:
> 
>         I was making a custom gdm theme a month or two back and couldn't get xnest to
>         work for me then either.  I eventually gave up and just installed my theme and
>         logged out to see how it worked.  Which was a lot more inconvenient than it
>         needed to be but at least I got the job done.
>         
>         xnest used to work for that purpose -- the last time I made a gdm theme was in
>         the FC6 or FC6 days, I think, and it worked fine then.
>         
> 
> For _that_, just enable more than one X. On typical systems, it will
> appear at VT8, and on.


I can get the Xnest login to succeed if I turn "Accessibility" off in
gdmsetup.

I've filed a bugzilla bug about this.

Hugh


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