 Three recursive levels of nested Xephyr sessions, running onLinux Mint | |
| Original author(s) | Matthew Allum |
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| Developer(s) | freedesktop.org |
| Initial release | January 1, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-01-01) |
| Written in | C |
| Type | Display server |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | freedesktop |
Xephyr is adisplay server software implementing theX11 display server protocol based onKDrive which targets awindow on a host X Server as itsframebuffer. It is written by Matthew Allum. Xephyr is an X-on-X implementation and runs onX.Org Server and can work withGlamor.[1] Future versions could make use oflibinput.[citation needed] Replacing Xephyr with the xf86-video-dummy and xf86-video-nested drivers in the normal X.Org server is being considered as part of X11R7.8.[2]
Unlike the similarXnest, Xephyr supports modern X extensions (even if the host server does not) such as composite, damage, and randr. It usesSHM images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen updates.
Xorg's version of Xephyr uses onlysoftware rendering forOpenGL, but Feng Haitao has developed aforked version of Xephyr which can do hardware-accelerated rendering if the underlying X server has the capability.
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