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Is it possible for emacs-exwm to run within another window manager, so that I use i3 as my main WM, but can also open X windows inside emacs?

Love emacs, but I hang/tweak/break it enough that I would be scared to use it as my main WM. But it would be awesome to open R graphics inside it, a la Rstudio.

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back when I last looked, xnest[1] was the go-to for that sort of thing. It's been the best part of a decade though, so YMMV.

[1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/Xnest.1.xhtm...

I switched to Xephyr[1] for reasons I can't remember some time ago, iirc it superseded xnest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xephyr

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