Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:26 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Nathan <nathan.stocks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? Message-ID: <20090731102926.GA73358@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <96c9d6a80906202149q3bdaf42dv88c303b49051f03c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241301413.33649.110.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090616095729.GA98713@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1245183702.71590.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> <20090618152536.GA24358@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906180940k7626e581g60c7f1a68006089a@mail.gmail.com> <20090619093836.GA72981@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906202149q3bdaf42dv88c303b49051f03c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0600, Nathan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > >> 5. And add this line right below it: > >> > >> exec gnome-session > > > > I see. So your users don't have $HOME/.xsession files? > > Not that I know of. > > >> 7. Edit /etc/ttys so that the ttyv8 line has on instead of off so it > >> looks like: > >> > >> ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > > > I start xdm manually. I was under the impression the above line > > wouldn't work on a headless box. > > Works fine on my headless box. > > > Few more questions, if you please: > > > > What architecture are your XDMCP server and the desktops? > > Do the users start X with -query <ip of the XDMCP server>? > > server is 7.2-RELEASE-amd64. Clients are HP/NeoWare e90 thin clients. > I don't know the specs exactly. > > The thin clients use their built-in gui, but from my mac I can connect > fine with "X -query (ip) -once" I think I finally got this working, after half a year of trying. I replaced alpha 6.4-stable with ia64 8.0-beta2. All xdm, dbus and hal config options were replicated from the alpha configuration. This would suggest that hal, dbus and XDMCP are not interacting correctly under 6.4 alpha. Now I can get kazekahase to work. many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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