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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:06 +0000, Mirco Müller wrote:
> > > What's test-support.am doing exactly? In particular how does Xvfb work
> > > and what are all those XIDs good for?
> > 
> > Its just machinery to get an X server up and running without linear
> > probing for available server slots.
> 
> Is that something I can easily test locally on my box here? If so I'd like to know how in order to replicate this, just for getting a better understanding what's going on there on the testing-systems.

I find the easiest way to test the Xvfb stuff is to ssh into localhost
so that you loose all your environment variables.  Make sure you don't
have xforwarding set up by default though ;)

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