Re: connecting to rh gdm

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Bill,

Bill McCormick wrote:

> I'm able to successfully connect to gdm Xserver on my RH Linux box but I see
> this ...
>
> $ XWin -query 192.168.212.1  -lesspointer -clipboard -xf86config
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86config
> Xlib: connection to "127.0.0.1:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Xlib: connection to "127.0.0.1:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Xlib: connection to "127.0.0.1:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified

Looks like -clipboard is having trouble connecting, which it almost 
always does when using XDMCP.  Are you running any other X Clients in 
your startup script on Windows?  Did you use startxdmcp.bat as a base? 
It would be a good idea to use startxdmcp.bat as a base since it doesn't 
start local X Clients.

> Also, I'd rather not use the resources on the Linux Box yet still have this
> functionality. So, is there a way I can accomplish this without actually
> being in runmode 5 on the Linux box?

What resources?  If you are referring to the overhead of running just 
xdm, then yes, you can do this without running xdm.  However, the 
resources associated with your full remote session are always going to 
be used, if you want a full remote session.

If what you want to do is just display some remote clients using the 
local window manager (XWin -multiwindow), then you can do this with ssh 
and X11 tunneling:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh


If you still want the full remote desktop (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.), then 
you start XWin without -multiwindow, -rootless, and -query (e.g. XWin 
-nodecoration -lesspointer) and without a local window manager (e.g. 
twm, mwm, etc.).  You launch an xterm (from your script) and either 
configure it to run ssh, or you manually ssh to the remote machine. 
Finally, you run the script on your remote machine that starts the 
window manager of your choice.  Some examples from debian would be 
'startkde', 'startgnome', etc.  This still uses all of the resouces 
associated with running a full desktop login, but it does allow you to 
not run xdm on your linux machine.

I don't have the exact procedure for automating the launch of ssh from 
xterm, but I think an example was in an email sent the list today, so 
you can search the mailing list archives for 'ssh' and 'xterm'.

Good luck,

Harold

> Thanks,
>
>
> Bill
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