Ubuntu
xorg-server package

xnest manual page fails to document authentication

Bug #182301 reported by era
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Binary package hint: xorg

Through Google I learned about the -auth and -ac options to Xnest. These are not mentioned in the manual page. (I wonder if there are other options I should also know about.)

These options would be especially important to document, because they are a frequent (if not the most frequent) question people have when they try to get Xnest to work (for the first time, or again, after you haven't used it for a while and bump into this ole authentication problem again).

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Julien Cristau (jcristau) wrote : xnest manpage

Hi,

Xnest(1) says (right there at the top of the OPTIONS section):
       Xnest supports all standard options of the sample server
       implementation. For more details, please see Xserver(1).

Also, you can use startx to handle the auth issues for you.

Cheers,
Julien

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era (era) wrote :

As per http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/110-GUI-Thursday-Xnest-A-nested-X-server.html there is also "-nolisten tcp" (and presumably other values you can give to -nolisten).

http://www.technovelty.org/linux/tips/xnest.html is the only place I have seen the -auth option, everybody else seem to have -ac.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Correct, closing the bug.

Changed in xorg:
status: New → Invalid
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era (era) wrote :

Julien, thanks for the pointer. I was grepping for "auth" and not finding anything. I guess I should have paused and taken another look.

Having said that, the usage scenario still remains; people are having problems getting Xnest to work, specifically because of authentication issues; thus, perhaps it would be useful to add something about this to the manual page.

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