Re: remote X sessions

Jacob Langley
2004-01-11T22:32:49Z

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>