remote desktop

[Michael Breuer]

If you're running the beta, try adding "-extension Composite -noclipboard"

Linda Walsh wrote:
> I'm trying to get a remote desktop to come up, but am not sure what's
> required on the remote end.
>
> Locally, I've been trying 'Xwin -query <hostname>
>
> Either they come up with no login screen, or in one case an error
> where it said:
> winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp, waiting to start clipboard client 
> until 4th call...
> winInitClipboard ()
> winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
> winClipboardProc - Hello
> DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
> winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened 
> the display.
> winProcQueryTree - Hello
> winProcQueryTree - Clipboard client already launched, returning.
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!
>
> winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler.
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>
>
> ---
> Is there something I'm missing or need to setup on my remote clients?
>
> They are various levels of suse boxen, and claim to have 'xdm' enabled
> via their chkconfig -- but I don't know if they are configured properly.
>
> Think was, is that I tried this before, and it just worked, but after
> some recent updates, it stopped working.  I guess I just got lucky with
> it working before?
>
> It may be there's too little to go on here, and I just need to start 
> from scratch, and try to figure out how XDM works from the man
> page, but it's odd that it was setup to 'work', but just seems to have
> randomly broke as I wasn't trying to change any configuration related to
> xdm on the remote machines...*sigh*.
>
> thanks if anyone sees any overt problems or knows any common ones 
> w/suse...
>
> linda
>
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