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 -- Jacob Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
