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    Parker> Anyone have any experience with Xnest?  I'm using Xorg
    Parker> 6.8.0-r1 under Gentoo and whenever I try to start it as a
    Parker> non-root user, it displays and then disappears in around a
    Parker> half second.  However, when I run as root, it works fine.
    Parker> Any suggestions?

If there's nothing enlightening with -logverbose 9 you might try
strace and see what system calls it's making before exiting.  It may
be trying to open a device (say the keyboard or mouse) and they're not
readable or something.

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