On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:08, mick wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally have a Mandrake 9.0 box up and running and awating configs for it's > new life as a "hopefully" soon to be print, file, NWN, internet sharing > server.
good good. > > I've been reading and following the Linux article in Atomic Magazine and have > a hit a bit of a pothole. The magazine explains how to get Xwindows > displaying on the windoze platform using third party software (WinAxe). > Being a GUI lover and having more than enough monitor acreage, I was hoping I > would be able to get mandrake's GUI on my RedHat 7.3 desktop in a small > window that I could drag around. As an aside there's some non-commercial xservers out there. I've spent the last week working in windows 2000 using the cygwin XFree86 port to talk to an old powermac sitting down stairs. Meant that I had sane terminals and editors and so forth (it's amazing what that machine can do with 100MHz) > > The Questions are as follows..... > > 1. I have a dual head 7500 which feeds two 19" monitors as a single desktop > (Xinerama'ed as it were). Will Xinerama affect exported Xwindows Sessions? nope. As I understand it Xinerama just gives you a single X server that talks to two monitors. It should be completely transparent to all your apps. > > 2. I have enabled XDMCP in the servers /etc/X11/gdm file to = true, and I > have limited xdmcp sessions to "1" ( a bit of psudeo security). Whatelse do > I need to set up at the server end. I'd crank that number up a bit. It's a pain when you have window managers and so forth die on the server and you have to wait for everything to properly shut down before you can log in again. You'd be better off limiting the IPs that can connect and doing some firewalling I'd say. I've also had issues with that number being too low without servers dying. I have theories why, but I just cranked the number up -- much easier :) > > 3. What command line and arguements do input from my "end" to bring up the > desired "window encased, drag aroundable" mandrake GUI? hmm. Xnest is probably what you want to use. I just noticed that there's a package called "gdm-Xnest" - I'd install it and have a look, but dependencies mean it would have to download about 43MB to do it here (mandrake cooker just upgraded X). Anyway, Xnest is an Xserver that runs inside a window. Look into this gdm-Xnest thing. I suspect it will do precisely what you want, but hopefully someone else will be able to verify this. It should all be on the mandrake CDs. > > 4. Anything you guys have thought of that I don't know about (ie, HEAPS). ummm. just that running X is probably unnecessary :) there's quite a nice text mode version of mandrake control center. It would be less trouble (and more secure) to just ssh to your server and run that. Putty is an excellent windows ssh client, and redhat will of course ship with openssh. > > Sorry for the length of this post, there'll be more to follow I'm sure. > Please know that all your help is greatly appreciated. You're welcome :) HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
