Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine

[Korin Richmond <korin@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, michael calwell wrote:

> 
> I have 2 machines, let's call them machine A and machine B.
> 
> On Machine A, I run an X Server. It uses GDM to run X.
> 
> I want to run the window manager, plus the desktop on machine B, using 
> the X server on machine A.
> 
> At the moment, I can run Machine B's individual X apps on machine A by 
> starting a display on machine A, starting a window manager, running an X 
> shell, permitting the connection by running xauth, telnetting to Machine 
> B, exporting the DISPLAY variable, etc. But basically I want Machine B 
> to treat Machine A's X server as its own.
> 
> Any thoughts?

If it's a safe network, maybe XDMCP?:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

Korin

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