On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:21, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 3:16 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > *snipped stuff about xnest gui* > > > > In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward > > any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, > > too, and would like to have a gui tooie. 8-) > > > > Dave > certainly. And here's another question I would like to pose... Let's just say > I have an old box, and I want to run gdm on it, so I can xdmcp into it.. BUT! > here's the kicker.. I dont want X to run on the box locally... IOW, I don't > want X to take up a VT on the system, ONLY be a remote X server.. anyone have > any ideas here? :)
I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can get into it no problem. PS rfbdrake and Remote Desktop Connection both provide access this way ... and it's a heck of a lot less bandwidth hungry than normal X.
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