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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
       "cool gadget in XFree86" (May 24, 10:55am)
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> I just remade my XFree86 and found the Xnest server.
> 
> What a cool gadget!
> 
> In case you don't know, it's an X11 server which runs in a X11 window.
> 
> (Very useful if you play with window managers I presume, perfectly useless
> otherwise :-)

It also works very well in conjuction with LBX.  Since LBX has come
stability problems, when you lockup the link you only lockup Xnest and
the remote LBX proxy server instead of locking up your normal X-server.


Nate