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Is it possible for that setup to show up as a virtual display on your main WM/DE, so you just extend to it, or does it need to run its own, separate instance? C
by badmintonbaseba 2y ago
Is it possible for that setup to show up as a virtual display on your main WM/DE, so you just extend to it, or does it need to run its own, separate instance? Can you drag a window from your main DE to the virtual display?
- eqvinox 2y agoWith Xephyr, it's a separate instance per se. I've never tried attaching it to an existing session; this is total half-knowledge but it might have been possible with the old Xinerama protocol (which has been replaced with Xrandr). With the move to Wayland, it's all a bit of a moot point either way... (You can absolutely use Xephyr on a Wayland session of course, since the latter is compatible with X11 clients. But the virtual display Xephyr provides is X11.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoMany Wayland compositors can just be launched nested with no extra steps, which is approximately the same as Xephyr.
- eqvinox 2y agoI assume that approach has the same limitations as Xephyr too? I.e. independent session, need to decide upfront which to use when launching things?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoAFAIK, yeah. It really is almost exactly like Xephyr, just that you don't launch a window manager into the new X server because the compositor is the display server.