From: Jacob Langley <jalangle@nmu.edu>
To: Lars Bungum <lars@bungum.no>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote X sessions
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:32:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073860369.10412.11.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073860095.2187.16.camel@shostakovitsj.larsemann>
I know about this solution if the remote machine is using a login
manager of some sort (gdm, xdm, kdm) but will it work if the remote
machine isn't running X like that?
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 17:28, Lars Bungum wrote:
> 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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Jacob Langley <jalangle@nmu.edu>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-11 22:32 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
2004-01-11 22:32 ` Jacob Langley [this message]
2004-01-11 22:46 ` Lars Bungum
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