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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