Re: How to run xterm in Xnest?

larryalk wrote:
I am using Xnext to open a window with 800x600 resolution in my normal
1280x1024 KDE 3.4 under Slackware 10.2.

Running Xnest -geometry 800x600 :1
results in a properly sized window but there is no way I can see to
run an xterm (or kterm). The window is just blank with a border on
top.

The problem with using ctl-alt-keypad +/-
is that _all_ windows in X change to the selected resolution which
makes switching between between my virtual terminals (all 6 of them)
inconvenient. Hence Xnest.

Looking at the documentation for Xnest in Slack
file://localhost/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/Xnest.1.html
there is no mention of running other programs and no command line
options.

How can I invoke Xnest to run another program?

What you can do is start Xnest to act as display 0.1:

Xnest :1&

Now you can open xterm on it with:

xterm -display :1
.

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