| nightstrike_ | does anyone know how to run a second instance of xquartz on a separate desktop so that I can use multipass to run KDE as the window manager on that other display server? | 05:30 |
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| LuisPearanda[m] | Hi nightstrike_! I don't master macOS, I'd suggest you to go to xquartz.org and see how to do it. On the other hand, Multipass can run any display manager, as shown [here](https://multipass.run/docs/set-up-a-graphical-interface#heading--using-x11-forwarding). If I understand it correctly, maybe you don't need a second instance of xquartz to do what you intend. | 10:57 |
| nightstrike_ | LuisPearanda[m]: x servers can only have one display manager at a time. So while I can open a window directly, I can't start for instance KDE. | 14:37 |
| nightstrike_ | Xquartz support is not too active these days. There's basically one person who has been working on it since it started. | 14:38 |
| === LuisPearanda[m] is now known as luisp[m] | ||
| luisp[m] | nightstrike_: I see your point now. Not sure how to do that on macOS. But if you need something with Multipass, don't hesitate in asking us again :) | 14:59 |
| nightstrike_ | luisp[m]: can multipass access the host graphics hardware to run X natively? | 19:55 |
| luisp[m] | nightstrike_: not yet. We planned doing that at some point, but there is unfortunately no ETA for that. | 21:08 |
| nightstrike_ | luisp[m]: ok. So I'm still stuck between with X server I can't talk to :( It's interesting, because the multipass wiki talks about doing it, it just doesn't really work | 21:23 |
| nightstrike_ | I guess to be fair, the Mac section punts to the Linux section ;) | 21:24 |
| nightstrike_ | https://multipass.run/docs/set-up-a-graphical-interface#heading--x11-on-macos | 21:24 |
| nightstrike_ | As an aside, you don't need to add the overhead of an ssh tunnel to forward X over a local connection like that. You can just tell the X server to accept TCP connections, disable auth with xhost +, and then set your DISPLAY to the IP of the host... as in, export DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:0 // or whatever IP | 21:25 |
| nightstrike_ | it goes a lot faster | 21:25 |
| nightstrike_ | the fundamental issue, though, is that X servers can only have one window manager per instance | 21:25 |
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