Re: XDMCP and GDM3
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Martin Feuersänger wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> a while ago we played a bit with XDMCP at the local LUG gathering here in
> Frankfurt, Germany.
>
> One machine was running KDE 4.6.5 (sid) and the other Gnome 3 (squeeze).
>
> We managed to get a Chooser on each machine from the respective other
> machine by issuing
> X :1 -broadcast -indirect <IP of remote machine>
> Each time the Chooser offered both machines.
>
> Now to my question.
>
> I know which files control the KDM behavior in regard to XDMCP (kdmrc and
> Xaccess, both in /etc/kde4/kdm/).
> But for GDM3 I have no idea where this is done. It just worked. Xaccess at
> /etc/X11/xdm/ had no influence so it must be somewhere else.
>
On my Squeeze system, there is /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf, which has an XDMCP
section. I'm taking a wild guess here, but you might add something to
that section like:
chooser = true
I think the old gdm.conf file had a lot of commented out examples in it,
if you can dig that up from somewhere.
-Rob
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