[OT] Re: Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

[Kyle Moffett]

On Feb 05, 2005, at 19:23, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Marko Macek wrote:
> [...]
> > It would be nice if display lock programs used a separate X display
> > (some kind of "virtual" display support might be nice to have, mainly
> > for performance).
>
> I would try VNC for this, at least for debugging. But I don't really 
> know
> if it would have worked. My distro (Debian) has VNC packed nicely
> (vncserver and xvncviewer packages), others should have it too. So the
> trial should be rather quick if you use such Linux flavor.

You could also try Xnest, which runs a second X-server within a window 
of
the primary X-server, except without most of the extra overhead of VNC 
or
other image-based solutions. Xnest can even handle different bit-depths
than the primary display, and only slightly modifies most X calls, 
except
for the ones that affect global state, which it processes internally.


Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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