Problems with Xnest.1x: 1. Ambiguous or invalid backslash. This doesn't cause groff a problem. but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations. --- Xnest.1x-orig 2007-01-14 11:20:14.000000000 -0500 +++ Xnest.1x 2007-01-14 11:20:23.000000000 -0500 @@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ will probably have to temporarily quit the real window manager. By default \fIXnest\fP will keep the nested client window whose colormap should be installed in the real server in the -\fIWM\_COLORMAP\_WINDOWS\fP property of the top level \fIXnest\fP +\fIWM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\fP property of the top level \fIXnest\fP window. If this colormap is of the same visual type as the root window of the nested server, \fIXnest\fP will associate this colormap with the top level \fIXnest\fP window as well. Since this does not have to be the case, window managers should look primarily at the -\fIWM\_COLORMAP\_WINDOWS\fP property rather than the colormap +\fIWM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\fP property rather than the colormap associated with the top level \fIXnest\fP window. Unfortunately, window managers are not very good at doing that yet so this option might come in handy. @@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ different visual from the default visual of the nested server, \fIXnest\fP will put the top window of this nested client and all other top windows of the nested clients that use the same colormap -into the \fIWM\_COLORMAP\_WINDOWS\fP property of the top level +into the \fIWM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\fP property of the top level \fIXnest\fP window on the real server. Thus, it is important that the real window manager that manages the \fIXnest\fP top level window -looks at the \fIWM\_COLORMAP\_WINDOWS\fP property rather than the +looks at the \fIWM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\fP property rather than the colormap associated with the top level \fIXnest\fP window. Since most window managers appear to not implement this convention properly as of yet, \fIXnest\fP can optionally do direct installation of colormaps
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Fixed as part of Xnest manpage fixes contributed upstream from Debian in 2007: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=6fdd134a0c3e6fdde9b089100e8783705c9cc6ac
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