Thanks for the reply... Ouch! Your solution was just what I was trying to avoid. I have several Linux boxes and I would like to be able to switch to any one via the chooser at the initial (or) login screen, from any machine. In 7.2 and before I was merely able to enable the chooser and select the system I would log into. Not so with 8.0 though. The same settings no longer work, nor does adding the /etc/hosts.allow, permissions, etc. which may be getting in the way. Also Exceed does not find the remote chooser (though it does bring up it's own...). Thanks though. -JMS -----Original Message----- From: George Petri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:27 AM To: Jose M. Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Query: How to enable chooser in GDM, KDM, XDM under 8.0? I have been having significant problems with the chooser as well but AFAIK: > Setting > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser > > In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess seems to have no effect in XDM. Keep the Xaccess file like it is -- with that line -- i.e. the default settings that come with mandrake. > > Likewise in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf even though the file points to the > chooser (as is the default) how do I get it to display? > I don't think gpm supports the chooser. > How do you enable the chooser (so it shows a list of hosts at the > console's graphical login screen) in GDM and KDM (and for that matter > xdm) in Mandrake 8.0. > You basically need kdm or xdm to be running in the background as a daemon. Then, typing X <displaynumber> -indirect <any X server on your network> should make kdm or xdm bring up the chooser for you for that display e.g. X :1 -indirect localhost To bring up the chooser at startup, I guess, you will have to add the line "x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -indirect localhost" just before the last line of /etc/inittab (mandrake 7.2), "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon": No warranties, though! I have given up trying this anyway! George
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