Remote X11 Connections

[Chris Ruprecht]

Rob,

On Wed October 9 2002 23:27, bronto wrote:
> Making progress.  Ran gdmconfig and made the settings, restarted gdm
> when the GUI config tool gave me that option.
>
> Now I go to my PC and try to start an X session.  I ran the command
> line from within cygwin:
>
> xwin.exe :2 -kb > -query IPADDRESS_HERE > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> (of course substituting my actual IP address)
>
> and it started an X session, but not anything more.  No login or
> anything.  You know, the screen with the gray background and the big
> X cursor.  The command line reported back:

This is all happening on the PC so far. It now waits for the X11 machine =
(the=20
Linux box) to talk to it.

>
> [1] 753049
>
> I've got no idea whether this was a local session of X, or whether it
> was actually connecting to my server.  After closing the X window I
> tried the exact same thing again and got:
>
> [2] 733393
> [1]   Done =09=09xwin.exe :2 -kb > -query IPADDRESS_HERE >
> /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> Next?
>
> >At 19:23 -0700 on 2002-10-9 bronto wrote:
> >  > Anyway, on the login dialog there is a System menu, but it doesn't
> >  > have options for Configure.
> >
> >You can also run the configurator for GDM after you log in: its name
> >is `gdmconfig' (most likely /usr/bin/gdmconfig) and in my Gnome menu
> >system (the stock YDL 2.2) it is also in `Programs -> System' menu
> >(where it is called `GDM Configurator').  From there choose `Expert'
> >and then click the XDMCP tab and... you know the rest.
> >

Try that. The menu should be on the GDM login program, too, though. If yo=
u=20
don't have that and the dog is still there, then the old TerraSoft progra=
m is=20
still running ...

> >If you want in the future to be able to configure GDM as described in
> >the previous post, click on `Basic' then on the `Login behaviour' tab
> >then check the option `Allow users to run the configurator from the
> >system menu.'
> >
> >  > I liked the dog :'(
> >
> >Oh well, `Login appearance' under `Basic' allows you to choose the
> >image you want--in fact, I did choose the dog on my system (I found a
> >number of suitable images installed by default in
> >/usr/share/pixmaps/yellowdog).

sorry gotta run ... work ...