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Date:      29 May 2003 11:30:44 -0700
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        zel@free.fr
Cc:        freebsd-config@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd and XFree question
Message-ID:  <87d6i1mwq3.fsf@thor.piqnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <1053693153.3ece14e13ea46@imp.free.fr>
References:  <1053693153.3ece14e13ea46@imp.free.fr>

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> Does it exist a way to start a xdm process without the complete
> XFree ?

Sure... you'll want to install the XFree86-4-clients port, which
includes xdm.  Then adjust your Xservers file (and whatever other
files you need to), and you're ready to go.

You may want to install fonts and run a font server as well; that way,
your clients all have access to a variety of fonts without needing to
replicate them.

> The objectiv is to purpose the x environment to users of the lan and use no 
> more memory/ressources on the server since no users should use it directly.

An idle X server doesn't take much in terms of resources.  (top shows
a lot, but most of that is the mapped memory to the video card.)  But
if you don't need it, you don't need it.

Cheers,
joelh

-- 
Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org
   Fourth law of programming:
   Anything that can go wrong wi
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