2 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
4 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
5 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
6 .\" to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
7 .\" the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
8 .\" and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
9 .\" Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
11 .\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
12 .\" paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
15 .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
16 .\" IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
17 .\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
18 .\" THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
19 .\" LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
20 .\" FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
21 .\" DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
24 .TH Xnest 1 "24 Jun 2009"
27 Xnest \- a nested X server
32 X server is no longer included in this release.
38 servers provide similar functionality of acting as an X server to other
39 clients, and displaying their output in a window on another X server.
42 acts as a simple X client which is displayed on another X server, while
44 provides a X server which can be connected to from a Remote Frame Buffer (RFB)
45 protocol client such as
47 allowing for the session to continue between connections and for connections
48 to occur from multiple viewing computers.
53 offer more support for modern desktop environments and newer X extensions
54 than the older Xnest server did, and avoid several limitations of the Xnest
55 server that were due to Xnest's reliance on passing most requests through to
56 the underlying server.