From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 00:49:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA09689 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain-work.iafrica.com (root@chain-work.iafrica.com [196.31.1.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA09681 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA08442; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:48:39 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain-work.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:48:39 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: dkelly@HiWAAY.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an X Terminal? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-URL: http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ X-Alternate-Address: khetan@uunet.co.za X-Alternate-Address2: kg@iafrica.com X-Alternate-Address3: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-Alternate-Address4: khetan@chain.iafrica.com X-IRC-nick: chain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Doug White wrote: >I tried to do this once and failed. One way I've seen to do it is from >the command line with a command like: >startx -query x.session.on.some.machine.com >This starts X connected to that machine. I think :) I've battled to get a chooser menu up as well. The startx is the only way I could get it to work, but even then I had to know the host name. --khg