On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:52 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > > > > And what do you type at the shell prompt to actually start the X session > > > at the remote end and display it locally ? > > > > gnome-session > > That gives me all sorts of error messages and stuff at the remote end > because I am runnning my normal Gnome window manager at the local end > and it doesn't want to have two gnome sessions. > > I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine, > but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system > admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part > of the standard Gnome session/desktop. > > Any ideas ? > > Jonathan > Sounds like a job for XDMCP. Enable that either in gdm.conf or bu running gdmsetup the access your remote machine by the command: X :1 -query <machinename> -once -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
