Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:28:35 -0600 From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as an X Terminal? Message-ID: <199612190228.UAA09916@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>
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Somewhere I thought I saw a reference about using FreeBSD as an X Terminal.
Today at work the boss was at home, sick, so when the opportunity presented
itself, the mice played. So today we installed FreeBSD on a poor
unsuspecting user who has been having no end of trouble with a DOS based X
server.
Installed FreeBSD 2.1.6R and XF8632 on a Gateway 486DX33 w/ 8M. Xdm
presents a login dialog (as expected) but also includes a console window at
the bottom. We'd really like to get rid of that console window. How?
But even better than getting rid of the console window on xdm's login, we'd
much rather have an X chooser displayed where the user could select the
system she wishes to login, Just The Way She Always Did It Before.
"man xdm" says:
For X terminals that do not offer a menu of hosts to get
display management from, xdm can collect willing hosts and
run the chooser program to offer the user a menu. For X
displays attached to a host, this step is typically not
used, as the local host does the display management.
How can I be "non-typical" and display the chooser on the local host?
(Presumably one of the choices will be the local host.)
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