Xephyr
 Three recursive levels of nested Xephyr sessions, running on Linux Mint | |
| Original author(s) | Matthew Allum |
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| Developer(s) | OpenedHand |
| Initial release | January 1, 2007 |
| Written in | C |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr |
Xephyr is a display server implementing the X11 display server protocol based on KDrive which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer. It is written by Matthew Allum.
Features
Unlike the similar Xnest, Xephyr supports modern X extensions (even if host server doesn't) such as composite, damage, randr, etc. It uses SHM images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen updates.
Limitations
Xephyr doesn't pick up the correct keyboard configuration from evdev-based keyboard drivers, so users must configure Xephyr's keyboard layout manually when using such keyboard drivers.[citation needed]
Xorg's version of Xephyr only supports software rendering for OpenGL, but Feng Haitao has developed a forked version of Xephyr which supports hardware-accelerated rendering if the underlying X server supports it.
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