running remote XDMCP session over ssh

Staf Verhaegen staf.verhaegen@imec.be
Thu Jun 24 15:38:00 GMT 2004


Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
>>Chris Green schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>>But why would you need XDMCP if you already have a ssh connection to 
>>>>your remote computer?
>>>>
>>>
>>>To get the whole desktop with the window manager of the remote
>>>computer as opposed to using a local window manager maybe.
>>>
>>
>>And why would you need XDMCP for this? Use ssh -Y and just start kde (or 
>>similar).
> 
> 
> CDE is not supported, is it ? ;-).  

Try /usr/dt/bin/dtsession on a CDE machine. Of course you need to run without 
a window manager on Windows (so also not -multiwindow).

Staf.



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