From: Lars Bungum <lars@bungum.no>
To: jalangle@nmu.edu
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote X sessions
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:28:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073860095.2187.16.camel@shostakovitsj.larsemann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073371557.10949.4.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 07:45, Jacob Langley wrote:
> I've been all over the internet tonight looking for exactly what I want
> and I can't find it. What I'd like to be able to do is type something
> like
> $ startx
> Maybe with a whole lot of command line options even and be able to open
> an X session running fluxbox or twm or some other light window manager
> on a completely separate machine on my lan. I'm so rarely in a window
> manager now that I'd like to be able to just use one off another
> computer and stick to a console only install on my main system since I'm
> the only person that uses it. Any ideas or places to look would be
> appreciated.
Jacob,
not sure I understand exactly what you're looking for either, but maybe
a XDMPC solution would work for you, since you're talking about
connections on your LAN. The box you wish to use X at could be set up
to accept such connections, and be queried with "X -query
<remotehost>". You do need a X installed where you are sitting, though,
but this could be quite minimal, and demand little HW resources. (Could
also be done with really thin, diskless clients). Then you just get an
entire session as if you were sitting at the machine you query. ssh
back to yourself or C-m-F1, etc, to get the console back.
--lars
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-11 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-06 6:45 remote X sessions Jacob Langley
2004-01-06 7:32 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-01-06 9:27 ` Beolach
2004-01-11 22:28 ` Lars Bungum [this message]
2004-01-11 22:32 ` Jacob Langley
2004-01-11 22:46 ` Lars Bungum
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