On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:57:04AM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Are there any 'ready made' equivalents of startx that , instead of displaying the local X desktop, will display a remote system's desktop?
I'm a little unclear here on use of 'server' and client BTW so bear with me if I sound a bit confused - I probably am! :-)
I want to have a setup on a Linux box that does the same as Cygwin/X does on my Win2K machine. Cygwin/X is an X server and I use it to display the desktop from my Linux box, the Win2k machine effectively acts as an X terminal with all desktop configuration etc. being on the Linux box. This uses XDMCP, which is the XDMCP client and which the server is beyond me!
How do I run X on *another* linux box so that it can display the same Linux desktop that I can already display on my Win2k system? Presumably the Linux system whose desktop is to be displayed must already be set up right (with xdm or equivalent, actually gdm in my case) so that remote servers can display its desktop. So all I need to do is get X on the 'new' Linux box to go and find the remote xdm.
Is it *just* a matter of saying:-
X -query sessionhostWhere sessionhost is the system whose desktop I want to display or is there more to it than that?
In case anyone else is interested the answer to the above question is 'yes', it is just a matter of saying "X -query sessionhost". Of course xdm has to be set up correctly at the other end but that's not too difficult using the HOWTOs.