weird situation with Xnest

Ariel Burbaickij ariel.burbaickij@gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 12:12:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:20:50 +0200 (MEST), Alexander Gottwald
<alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:27:34 +0200 (MEST), Alexander Gottwald
> > <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello dear mailing list participants,
> > > > following pretty strange thing happens
> > > > to me:
> > > > if I start Xnest and then try to start
> > > > xterm on it I get Bad system call and
> > > > window of xterm does not appear
> > > > in nested server.
> > >
> > > Which version of Xnest you're referring too?
> >
> > I do not know how it is possible to obtain
> > version of Xnest. The release of Xwin
> > is  6.8.0.0-1
> 
> 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.
Yes, it had solved both the problem of "Bad system call" and
also of inability to start window manager in nested server.
Surprisingly enough, if I start nested server in full display
mode (i.e. -geometry 1024X768+0+0) application panel
will not appear for whatever reasons, though.



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