Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:12:14 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote X display Message-ID: <20040122160400.Y29725@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I have been looking all over for a concise howto for remote X on FreeBSD. I > see some that involve changing config files in the xdm directory, others use > xhost, and another uses xfig, which doesn't exist under FreeBSD AFAICT. > > All I want to do is use a laptop in a local network to be an X client > connected to a more powerful desktop machine. I'm not worried about > security. > > Is xhosts and the DISPLAY variable all I need? Or do I need to go through > all of the xdm configuration hoops? > > NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. What do exactly want to do? If you want to login into your laptop from your desktop machine, you may enter "xhost +laptop-ip-address" on your desktop system and set the DISPLAY variable in the login shell on the laptop. The latter one will then run X clients and the desktop system the X server. But if you want to use the laptop as a kind of X terminal and run your applications on the more powerful desktop system, the laptop needs to run the X server and the desktop the X clients. In that case, I suggest you should comment out the line DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config (put a ! at the beginning of the line), run xdm on the desktop system and start the X server on the laptop by entering: X -query desktop-ip-address Best regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany
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