Testing multiple window manager simultanously with Xnest
My favorite window manager is currently fluxbox but i recently wnated to try out wmii. So i searched for a way to run multiple window managers and still be able to switch between them. This is were Xnest comes in. With Xnest it is possible to nest a xserver huh suprised aren't you ;)
We have to pass another display number to Xnest because the default 0:0 is normally already in use.
Xnest -ac :1Afterwards we can start any application on our nested Xserver the easiest way is probably to launch an xterm and issue further commands from there.
xterm -display :1Note that within our new xterm the display environment variable is set to :1.0
echo $DISPLAY
:1.0Another way would be to simply set the display variable to 1 instead of 0 in the terminal where you started Xnest. All application will redirect their graphical output to the nested x server.
export DISPLAY=":1.0"Next step would probably be to start a window manager in my case i just typed /usr/bin/wmii in my xterm and everything worked as expected.
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