* Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net> [20030407 12:10 PDT]: > I'm new to xdm/gdm, and very excited about the possibilities of using my > higher end machine as an application server to my older machines. I've > got gdm set up to act as an xdmcp server, and I can successfully log on > from remote machines and access my desktop. > > This is where it gets a little dicey. One machine I wish to log on from > is an old P-120 laptop with a 640x480 display; my other displays are all > 1024x768. > > Is it possible to detect the resolution of the display on which the > xdmcp server is drawing? If so, how? I'd like to write a script that > would load different defaults based on display size. If all else fails, maybe you could run another gdm (on :1) at a different resolution, and connect to that when you're running from the smaller display. I haven't really worked with xdmcp, though, and haven't spent any time reading or thinking about it. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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