[linux-audio-dev] Audio s/w ui swallowing

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 31 04:17:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:19:57 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> Yes, but how? Somehow giving each app something that's compatible 
> >> enough with an X window to handle a standard toolkit is the obvious 
> >> way, but it might be more complicated than it sounds... (And it won't 
> >> help the portability issue much, unless it's actually an X protocol 
> >> implementation - but that's probably a minor issue for most people.)
> >
> >Thats why I suggested Xnest. It is a genuine X implemntation, and it lets
> >you run a private window manager to control the rack.
> 
> yes, i love it. note that it requires a newer version of XFree86
> (3.3.2 doesn't have it).

I think it does, its been around for a while, but maybe it wasn't
installed by default, RedHat 5 had Xnest 3.3 RPMs.

- Steve



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