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Date:      Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:49:10 -0600
From:      Nathan <nathan.stocks@gmail.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp?
Message-ID:  <96c9d6a80906202149q3bdaf42dv88c303b49051f03c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090619093836.GA72981@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wr=
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>> 5. =A0And add this line right below it:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 exec gnome-session
>
> I see. So your users don't have $HOME/.xsession files?

Not that I know of.

>> 7. =A0Edit /etc/ttys so that the ttyv8 line has on instead of off so it
>> looks like:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 ttyv8 =A0 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" =A0xterm =A0 on =A0=
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"

~ Nathan



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