weird situation with Xnest

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Sep 23 12:02:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:

> > There were two fixes to Xnest which might apply to your problem in
> > xorg-x11-xnest-6.8.1.0-1. Please try this version.
> I will try it and provide feedback. Thank you for your
> relentless help.
> > > > Do you have cygserver running for IPC support?
> > >     How can I do it ?
> > 
> > cygserver-config does install cygserver as windows service.
>     Eeeh, I actually do not want to install it as windows service.
>     Is it prerequisite or can Xnest work without cygserver being
>     set as windows service?

Xnest should work fine without it.

>     What should I say? Well it is not set neither as Windows
>     environment variable (as output from SET command)
>     nor as Unix envirnoment variable (as output from env).
>     Must it be set? To what value?

It is only required if you have cygserver running and you want to 
use shared memory. But it is not required for running Xnest.

bye
	ago
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