From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 12:12:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA29095 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:12:50 -0700 Received: from terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (terra.stack.urc.tue.nl [131.155.140.128]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA29089 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:12:47 -0700 Received: from zen.stack.urc.tue.nl (zen.stack.urc.tue.nl [131.155.140.130]) by terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA07625; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:13:00 +0200 Received: (sven@localhost) by zen.stack.urc.tue.nl (8.6.10/8.6.4) id VAA13816; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:12:42 +0200 From: sven@stack.urc.tue.nl (Sven Berkvens) Message-Id: <199506271912.VAA13816@zen.stack.urc.tue.nl> Subject: Re: how to turn local system into Xterminal To: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:12:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Guido van Rooij" at Jun 27, 95 12:16:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1014 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I like to have the possibility to sometimes just act as an xterminal, > without having to boot again. Of course I should configure a remote > machines xdm so it is willing to serve me. But what should I do > locally? Just starting an xserver isn't enough of course..How do I tell > the remote machine it should open up the xdm logon window? It's nearly enough to start the X server locally: you do not need to configure anything if your X server works okay. If you'd like to access a remote machine using your local machine as the terminal, you'd type the following instead of typing 'startx': X -query some.remote.host Perhaps you'd like to add the -once option, which will shut down the X server once you've logged out from the session, ie. not return to login prompt. Or, if a remote machine offers you a so-called chooser (from which you can select yet another host to log in to): X -indirect some.remote.host That's all there's to it... > -Guido -Sven Berkvens (System Administrator for MCGV Stack)