[LAU] screencasting with xephyr - wiki page

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Renato wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to follow the wiki screencasting guide:
>
> http://apps.linuxaudio.org/wiki/screencasttutorial
>
> however I don't get how Xephyr should work. I just get a big black
> window. That's probably because I just removed the "/etc/X11/Xession"
> line, but I don't have that file (I'm on Archlinux). I tried
> substituting it with "xinit" (how I normally start X) but that didn't
> work too.

I know I'm not trying to express a popular opinion, but what's the
benefit of using Xephyr when you can just record a particular part of
a screen?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org