[lug] Multiple XDM/KDM/GDM?

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 09:00:52 MDT 2010


On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Ryan Kirkpatrick <linux at rkirkpat.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 stimits at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Has anyone here ever set up to run multiple simultaneous xdm/kdm/gdm
>> setups (e.g., access with alt-F7, and alt-F8 consoles), where one is
>> to serve locally, and the other is pointed to a remote host?
>
> I have a number of old HP Vectras setup as Xterminals for my server. On
> the Vectras I put the following in /etc/inittab to start up a remote
> session:
>
> xt2:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/XFree86.sh
>
> Then the shell script contains: ...
>

One current day alternative is the vncserver/vncclient combination.



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Collins Richey
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