Re: X with (g|w|x)dm capable of selecting host at login

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

John Goerzen <jgoerzen@progenylinux.com> writes:

> xdm already has this feature, I believe.
> 
> -- John
> 
> esoR ocsirF <rosef@eou.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > A while back there was mention of developing a display manageer that
> > could select a host to login to. What ever became of this? 
> > 
> > I am setting up a small group of machines for our physics/engineering
> > depts. and would like to have this available. Is this still just
> > ideaware?
> > 
> > My apologies if this is the wrong place to post this to.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Frisco Rose             "By any other name, I would smell the same"
> > E.O.U. Stud.             rosef@quark.eou.edu         rosef@eou.edu
> > Physics                  Mathematics 	          Computer Science
> > 
> > If all the ipv6 addresses were distributed evenly across the planets
> > surface, there would be roughly 423,354,243,695,259,002,656 per square inch.
> > And, no, I don't know what this has to do with anything.
> > 	 (Some witty Debian Developer)

wdm too, with a little bit of hacking...

Install also xdm, or get the "chooser" executable from xdm.

In /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config, add:

  ! Use our chooser
  DisplayManager*chooser:		<path-to-chooser>

Start X with "X -indirect localhost" and voila.

Phil.