Fedora 12 beta KDM thru Xephyr

Fedora 12 beta KDM thru Xephyr
Originally uploaded by afsilva

Last night, I was playing around with Fedora 12 Beta some more, and decided to switch Display Managers from GDM to KDM. I was delighted to see how nice the KDM theme looks on Fedora 12 Beta.

A friend of mine asked me for a screenshot, and then I realized I didn't know how to take screenshots outside being logged in on KDE or GNOME. I did some googling around, and saw that 'Xnest' was the better way to getting screenshots of Display Managers.

I did have to turn off IPv6 to get Xnest working, but the fonts didn't look so good, that's when I found out about Xephyr, which supports modern X extensions.

First switch from GDM to KDM.

Then, install Xephyr.

yum install Xephyr

And then:

Xephyr :1 -query localhost -screen 1024x76

PS: If you use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, Xephyr should work with IPv6 enabled.