Newbie question -
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Nov 15 14:24:00 GMT 2002
Jean-Claude,
No.
XDMCP manages your entire X Windows session. Either you use it at
startup or you don't use it at all.
If all you want is a local window manager and remote applications, then
you should launch XWin with your local window manager, then ssh into
your remote host with X forwarding enabled and launch your X Clients in
the background (e.g. ``xterm&'').
What did you envision would happen if you were running a local window
manager and you logged into a remote XDMCP session at the same time,
assuming that this was possible? Did you assume that the window
managers would share the screen, that a new window would popup with the
XDMCP session? What were you envisioning?
Harold
Harold
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
>Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact?
>Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query,
>but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of
>my current window session.
>I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But
>there is no user called root on my system...
>Thanks.
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