On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:41, Thomas Dodd wrote: > David Krider wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:53, Thomas Dodd wrote: > >>That allow me to access the box from other machines (like Solaris). > >>But that doesn't all me to select another host form the shrike box. > > > > > > Oh baby! The holy grail! Is this possible? I've wanted to do it for a > > long time (select another host from my Red Hat box), but I've never been > > able to even google a reference on how to get this accomplished. Maybe > > someone here knows how?... > > The owlriver link Michael posted got me going in the right direction. > > After the mods to gdm.conf to allow remote access I change the last > sections in gdm.conf to this: > > > [servers] > 0=Standard vt7 > 1=Terminal -indirect labpc vt8 :1 > > [server-Standard] > name=Standard server > command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X > flexible=true > > [server-Terminal] > name=Terminal server > command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -terminate > flexible=false > handled=false > > > Then restart GDM. That gives me a normal GDM on vt7 (display :0) > and a chooser on vt8 (display :1). Thats the best I can find so far. > Still not the same as Sun and dtlogin, but better. > > Now I need a way to stop gdmlogin on :0 and start the chooser on :0 as a > menu/button in gdmlogin. Since it works with dtlogin (from CDE) I know > it can be done, just got to figure out how. I remember back when I had > CDE for linux it worked like on the Suns. > > -Thomas > > Awesome! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! dk P.S. Sorry for the fan-boy post. I just don't have the brains to figure out X.
