Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:50 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
If you only want the remote desktop
instead of a local one, you can enable xdm logins on the
remote,
start the local machine at init level 3, then start X locally
with
X -query remote_host
and get a graphic login prompt followed by the remote desktop.
Could you please explain this a little bit more or tell me where to
read about it?
i am interested it that.
I'm actually running the k12ltsp modified version of FC5 so I'm not
quite sure what you have to do to enable XDMCP logins in a stock
version (k12ltsp adds the ability to network-boot thin clients and
thus has it on by default). In earlier versions you would run
gdmconfig, click the XDMCP tab, then check the box that says
'enable XDMCP', but it is changed in FC5. It may be under
System/Administration/Login Screen.
On the local side, just set up the machine not to start X automatically.
If it already does you would edit /etc/inittab and change the line
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
so you will boot to a text login prompt. Then you type
X -query remote_server
to start X locally but run the desktop from a remote machine.
There's no need to disable X locally.
Locally, by default, X runs on display :0. To have both a local session and a
remote session simultaneously all you need to do is start another X session on a
different display. To start the remote session on display :1 you run:
X :1 -query remote_server
then you have your local session on :0 (ctrl-alt-F7) and the remote session on
:1 (ctrl-alt-F8).
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