Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I connect to a remote X client?
Lets start here. We need to get our terminology straight. Perhaps the answers will show themselves. A "client" is an application which wants to draw boxes on glass. A "server" is an application which services a client, and does the glass-drawing. The server runs on the box in front of you, the client runs somewhere else. Generally, you don't "connect to" a client, but rather the client connects to you. There's an application (XDM) which manages a display for a host. It does things like put up an X-based "Login/Password" screen and allows you to choose your desktop manager. The client which connects to this is called XDMc and the daemon which runs this client is XDMcd. Am I on the right track for what you're looking to do? > Can I run a Gnome display from > some remote host in a window inside my default display? Can I do it in > a virtual console? It seems like you want an XDMc on your local box to display the XDM logon for a remote box, either inside an X-window of a local X display, or by creating a seperate X-display on a different virtual console of the local box. Is this near right? I'd never seen a remote X console run in a window, except through VNC (which you say you don't want to do). I've seen the latter done. If you did this, you'd be able to do something like ALT-F9 and have a Gnome desktop from another box; starting x-load (for example) within that Gnome would show you the load on the remote host.. If I'm understanding you right, you want to investigate XDMcp http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ Sent: Jun 8, 2004 1:26 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] How do I connect to a remote X client? Let me add one more thing... I can open a virtual console, log in, and type something like X :2 -indirect 123.123.123.123 and get a chooser. I know this gets me from point A to point B, but it won't do when it comes time to script this. How can I get to point B in a script? Thanks, Ryan On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 13:12, Ryan Leathers wrote: > How can I connect to a remote X client? Can I run a Gnome display from > some remote host in a window inside my default display? Can I do it in > a virtual console? > > I think I'm groping in the right area but it hasn't dawned on me how to > do this. > > I have a PC which starts up in runlevel 5 and runs gnome. I want it to > do this every time it boots - this part works fine today. I want to be > able to connect to some remote host and run full screen (or nearly full > screen) while retaining the ability to toggle between the two displays. > Since I know I will get some well intended suggestions which won't be > the least bit helpful, here is a list of things I don't want help with: > > I do NOT want to run chooser to do this - I always want my local X on my > default display when I boot. > I do not want to tunnel individual x apps through ssh. > I do not want to use VNC instead. > > FYI, once I understand how to do this I will want to script up a VPN > client connection followed by an X connection to a remote host. I know > how to handle the VPN part already. > > -- > Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Global Knowledge -- Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global Knowledge -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
