Remote XWindow session

[Rajinder Yadav]

Hi Len,

this looks like a solution I can use out of the box. I will have to get my other Linux box setup and play around with the idea.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Remote XWindow session
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 9:26 AM
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:27:52PM
> -0700, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> > Is it possible to set up a remote xwindow session?
> What I want to do is
> > connect to a remote Linux box that has no video card,
> but I still want 
> > to be able to run a local KDE session controlling the
> remote Linux box 
> > in a rich GUI environment.
> > 
> > Is this possible, and is this easy to setup?
> 
> Well you can run xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm on the box, and run an X
> server in
> remote session mode to connect to it.  I used to do
> that a long time ago.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> X -query headlessbox
> 
> You can even set it up on your box with the video card so
> that vt7 is
> local and vt8 runs the remote session.  Look in
> Xservers if you run xdm,
> and in whatever gdm/kdm/wdm uses if you run one of those.
> 
> Or for a dirty hack add this to your /etc/inittab:
> X1:23:respawn:/usr/bin/X -query remotehost vt8
> 
> Other interesting methods involve Xnest, which runs an X
> server in a
> window, so you could be locally doing:
> 
> Xnest -geometry 1024x768 -query remotehost
> 
> That would make a window 1024x768 with a session running on
> the remote
> host's *dm.
> 
> In every case you have to configure the *dm on the remote
> box to allow
> remote connections, and of course disable the attempt to
> run a local one
> (which is the default for all of them), since you don't
> actually have
> a video card to run it on there I guess.
> 
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