On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:42, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > I want to setup an old lap to run as an x-terminal. I know nothing about > doing this yet, I only know that it can be done and think it's called an > x-terminal. It gives me a remote login to my main machine right? > > Sadly I can't search "x-terminal" in our archive in gmane and all that I > found throught google was at least 3 years old. The only promising thing > I found was this thread on fedora-devel-list: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00757.html > > ... from that list it looks like I should get to know and use LCFG > http://www.lcfg.org/ > > not becaue I need it fro my little laptop, but because it's scalable etc. Simple way: Run 'gdmconfig' on your main machine, click the XDMCP tab and check the enable XDMCP box, then restart X. Set up the laptop to boot to text mode. Start X manually with: X -query your_server Log into the main server. If you want to set up a system specifically for this, check out the k12ltsp distribution which has rebuilt fedora ISOs which will come up ready to network-boot thin clients so you don't even have to install anything on them. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
