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Re: Newbie question -
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:07:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: Newbie question -
- References: <006f01c28cf2$b5c5ab40$6501a8c0@sprymusic.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jean-Claude,
No.
XDMCP manages your entire X Windows session. Either you use it at
startup or you don't use it at all.
If all you want is a local window manager and remote applications, then
you should launch XWin with your local window manager, then ssh into
your remote host with X forwarding enabled and launch your X Clients in
the background (e.g. ``xterm&'').
What did you envision would happen if you were running a local window
manager and you logged into a remote XDMCP session at the same time,
assuming that this was possible? Did you assume that the window
managers would share the screen, that a new window would popup with the
XDMCP session? What were you envisioning?
Harold
Harold
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact?
Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query,
but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of
my current window session.
I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But
there is no user called root on my system...
Thanks.