Re: Remote X

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:52 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
> > Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > > 
> > > And what do you type at the shell prompt to actually start the X session
> > > at the remote end and display it locally ?
> > 
> > gnome-session
> 
> That gives me all sorts of error messages and stuff at the remote end
> because I am runnning my normal Gnome window manager at the local end
> and it doesn't want to have two gnome sessions.
> 
> I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine,
> but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system
> admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part
> of the standard Gnome session/desktop.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
Sounds like a job for XDMCP. Enable that either in gdm.conf or bu
running gdmsetup the access your remote machine by the command:
X :1 -query <machinename> -once

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>