Hi all,

In OS2008, I used the Debian Xephyr nested X-Server to display a second desktop on top of Maemo. This was somewhat useful for people who wished to have a secondary, more desktop-like environment without rebooting or shutting down Maemo.

Now with Maemo 5 and the new Matchbox WM, many desktop apps just don't display properly at all. Dialogs are the worst offenders; it is almost guaranteed that a desktop app's dialog will be useless in Maemo 5.

Xephyr is needed more than ever! But! It, too, is useless inside the current Maemo 5 window manager! The display inside Xephyr ( :1 ) doesn't receive any keyboard input events at all.

According to this (now infamous) Maemo qt patch, the Maemo 5 WM is "broken" because all apps must make an explicit XSetInputFocus() call.

I'm not sure, but I think qwerty12's patch to xev does the same thing.

So, I'm hoping someone could patch the Debian Xephyr package to do this for me. If this gives me a keyboard in Xephyr, then I'll commence begging the developer to push it into Fremantle Extras-Devel.

Thanks in advance. This community rocks.