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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:10:57 +0100
From:      albi@saynotomicrosoft.org
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: remote X display
Message-ID:  <20040122151057.GA3765@aseed.antenna.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> 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?

you can do the following :

run gdm on the server, start gdmconfig as root, enable XDMCP
then on the client start X as following :
X -query ipaddress_of_your_server



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