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	qole	2008-05-29 , 09:45
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Originally Posted by debernardis

Ta-dah! Full screen xfce4 (with abiword, openoffice and all the band) along with hildon-matchbox and those other odd things. Two worlds together! I am verrrrry happy :-)

Don't you find two windows managers to be terribly slow? I do.

But, if you want to go the two-WM route, I suggest looking into the VNC method:

VNC METHOD

Install tightvncserver in Debian
Install VNC Viewer in OS2008
Run the following command in Debian: vncserver -geometry 770x770
Use VNC Viewer to view localhost:1
When you're done with xfce4, in Debian: vncserver -kill :1

This method has the following advantages:

Full Hildon virtual keyboard support
Right-click support
Large virtual desktop (with a convenient vertical scroll-bar)

However, for anyone interested in getting this to work with Xephyr (come on, you know you do), within Debian you'll need to:

XEPHYR METHOD

Code:

apt-get install xserver-xephyr
apt-get install wmctrl

I assume you already have xfce4 installed, since it comes as default for the current Debian install.

Then, I suggest a little script (/usr/bin/xephce4 ?

) with something like the following:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#---------------------------------------
#Start the Xephyr server. Don't use host-cursor! There is none!

export DISPLAY=:0
Xephyr :1 -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac &

#---------------------------------------
#Make Xephyr full screen and bring it to the front.

wmctrl -r Xephyr -b toggle,fullscreen
wmctrl -a Xephyr

#---------------------------------------
#Make a bunch of important files writable
#by the user. Maybe not needed in all setups.

chown user /home/user/.ICEauthority
chgrp users /home/user/.ICEauthority
chown user /home/user/.cache
chgrp users /home/user/.cache
chown user /home/user/.dbus/session-bus
chgrp users /home/user/.dbus/session-bus

#---------------------------------------
#run xfce4 as user.
su user -c 'export DISPLAY=:1; xfce4-session' &

As always, remember to chmod +x /usr/bin/xephce4. Also, you need to run this as root in Debian, so don't use the "hilda" script. You should just do (from OS2008):

Code:

sudo debian xephce4

You'll need to use wmctrl -a Xephyr or that kciconsbox program to get back to your xfce4 desktop when you "lose" it.

Advantages of this method:

Very cool.
It seems faster. Anyone want to do time trials?
~~Pressure sensitivity should work~~ Nope.

Originally Posted by debernardis

My present 6gigs has become insufficient for that debianosaurus.

That's a good word for it. I constantly have to free up space by looking through my installed packages and removing stuff that I tried once and haven't used again... I'm still trying to find a good media player.

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