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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xephyr does not support hardware-accelerated OpenGL and its software
rendering is dead slow.

I know nested X sounds cool, but it doesn't really work. Wayland can be
nested multiple times without any performance loss, but it's not ready for
use by mere mortals yet.

2012/10/1 Eshat Cakar <info@xxxxxxxx>

> When I worked on KDM themes, I used XDMCP via "Xephyr -query localhost
> :2" to get a nested XServer, which is nice to record with eidete or
> any other screencasting tool. There should be no performance issues
> with this.
>
> However, I just tested this but unfortunatly LightDM seems to ignore
> the -screen parameter to set the resolution and has some graphical
> issues here.
>

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
OS architect @ elementary