-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks much for that. I'll check out what you suggest below. If this works out for me, I'll post back with what I did in case someone else wants to do something similar on low-end hardware. Greg On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Gregory Nowak, le Mon 04 Jun 2012 01:40:44 -0700, a ?crit : > > I have a very old laptop here running gnu/linux without gnome, or even > > xorg, since the machine is way too old to run gnome, and I have no use > > for a full x11 environment which I can't access. > > > So, I installed Xvfb, and rdesktop. > > That is actually a full x11 environment (even if not a full desktop x11 > environment). You can install the regular Xorg server, and use Xorg > instead of Xvfb, and that should just work fine. > > > The other possibility would be setting up a minimal x environment > > which I could run rdesktop in. I don't know though what are the > > minimum packages required for this in debian, and how much of a > > challenge it would be to launch rdesktop, and exit from it without > > something like orca. > > I think the ideal solution would be something that I can setup from > > inittab on an unused console. > > That can be done indeed, something like > > 7:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/rdesktop themachine -- vt7 > > and that will run on VT7. You thus just need the X server from > xserver-xorg-core, and startx from the xinit package. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/NFAUACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyC4OACgpkNgEuB7AhAo2utzh6pssLoK 2q8An3j57MC+mqlJgpzbCNvXN9ylS8XY =iCHT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
