Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-07-13, Sam Smith wrote: > On 07/11/2017 06:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. >>> Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this >>> complete "run X as se

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-13 Thread Sam Smith
On 07/11/2017 06:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote: [...] But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal user so I ca

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote: [...] > But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. > Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this > complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal user so I > can run x11vnc to use my desktop" hack

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-10 Thread Felix Miata
Sam Smith composed on 2017-07-10 22:12 (UTC-0500): ... > But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. > Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this > complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal user so I > can run x11vnc to use my

Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-10 Thread Sam Smith
For years I've used KDE on on my computers. I used to just have one desktop about 10 years ago but have since added many other laptops to my collection (all running debian of course). My now 10 year old desktop sits in the corner all by it self and rarely gets turned on. But my wife still uses