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A remote controlling solution.

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Sharing an X11 desktop with xnest ∞

\apt-get  install xorg-x11-Xnest

Assuming you are already in an X session (control-alt-f7).

In a terminal, do:

\nohup \Xnest :1 -ac >> /dev/null&

From your original session, you can force the new one to run commands, like a window manager, like so:

DISPLAY=:1 \nohup \openbox >> /dev/null&

Note that some commands have a -display parameter which you could also use.

Questions:

• How would I remotely shut down an Xnest session?

a simple script for testing a window manager ∞

nohup Xnest :1 -ac >> /dev/null&
DISPLAY=:1 nohup $@ >> /dev/null&

and just summon it with something like:

wm.sh openbox