Newbie question -

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 9:02 am, 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.

You could try
$ Xnest :1 -query <host>

This will give you an XDMCP session in a window inside your current XSession.

Rasjid.