Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:50:39 +0200 From: Jonas Jochum <jonas.jochum@gmx.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a central X server ... Message-ID: <3EAAB8DF.1000508@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030426150705.P9976@hub.org> References: <20030426150705.P9976@hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: >Can someone point me at docs on how I can do this? >basically, I have a rackmount server here that has 4Gig of RAM and dual >CPU ... I'd like to setup X on it such that my staff's workstations run >their apps off of that machine, instead of their desktops ... >I've found some docs on XDMCP, but they seem to revolve more around being >able to set it up for Xceed and such, not for going from/to FreeBSD boxes >... > Yeah, just run gdm, xdm or kdm on the server, and set it up to use xdmcp. On the client machines you do X -broadcast, then you should be able to do what you want ;-) >Now, the one thing I'm not sure whether would work or not is sound ... if >the X stuff is on a remote server, then the programs are running over >there, so is there a way of "connecting" back to the client computer for >their sound? > You could use esd or another sound daemon for that. Bye, Jonas
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