Thursday, February 23, 2017

Running LXDE inside Xephyr in Arch Linux

Install Xephyr:
sudo pacman -S xorg-server-xephyr
Install LXDE:
sudo pacman -S lxsession-gtk3 lxpanel-gtk3 pacmanfm-gtk3 openbox lxtask-gtk3 lxde-icon-theme lxterminal-gtk3 lxrandr-gtk3
Then run Xephyr:
Xephyr -ac -noreset -query localhost -screen 1920x1080 -keybd ephyr,,,xkbmodel=evdev :3
And in another terminal:
DISPLAY=:3 startlxde