On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:32 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > I have been looking around without much luck for > an XDMCP client which can run as a window under another > X server. > > As an example of what I am looking for, consider the Windows > program Exceed, by Hummingbird. I can bring up an Exceed > X server sesson and tell it to act as an XDMCP client. I can > then point it at a Fedora (or other Unix) server with XDMCP > turned on and can get a window with the desktop from the > Fedora server. I can have serveral of these windows available > at one time. > > I suppose you could say I am running an X server using a window > as the display screen. > > Has anyone seen software which supports this functionality on Fedora? > An RPM is of course preferable, but compile and install is OK too. > > Bob Styma Sure thing. What you're looking for is called Xnest. It's both an X server and a client that can run and display in your current X/GUI session. I believe it accepts some of the standard X command-line arguments, i.e. -geometry, -depth, -query, :N (where N is the display number you want it to use). The package/version of this that i've got installed is xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.0.1-9.fc5.5, which is available at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.0.1-8.i386.rpm for fc5 and at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-47.fc6.i386.rpm for fc6. You can use your favorite package manager GUI, or from a command-line: yum -y xorg-x11-server-Xnest -or- rpm -ihv url_to_packagename.rpm Note that it is not in the extras repository; it is one of the core packages. You sound like you know what you're doing, anyway; the man pages are pretty helpful. Hope this helps. Holler if ???s. - gabriel
