Re: Prepackaged indirected X terminal
[ BTW. List, is this the right place to have the discussion on ? ]
Why not then have have xdm manage the :0 display and start another
X for that specific work
while true; do X :1 -indirect $host; done # or
while true; do X :1 vt10 -indirect $host; done
will basically start up a new display on the next virtual terminal,
or the given vt.
C-A-F7 will take you to the local managed server
C-A-F8 will take you to the "indirected" server
I don't know what your users will think about that, but if it solves
your maintainance headaches, why not.
Regards,
/Karl
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From: Alexander Perry <arp11@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Prepackaged indirected X terminal
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:37:58 -0800
> Thanks, Karl, that is much neater than the way I was doing it.
>
> What I'm trying to set up is this ...
> The nameservers are all running xdm to catch broadcast xdmcp
> requests. These are given the chooser with a list of host
> names that is automatically derived from the nameserver content.
> Each calling server is thus indirected to the desired computer;
> in many cases, this will be the localhost just like the default.
>
> Why ?
> I'd like to set this up because we have computers sitting around,
> most of which are connected to a variety of experimental systems.
> If two people want to work on the same system, or if the area
> around that system is not conducive to placing a human nearby,
> people simply grab the console of a nearby computer and work
> normally. It gets irritating fast, having to deal with a
> display manager that starts applications locally when you
> really want to run the apps on the target system.
>
> Starting the X server from inittab with the -indirect option
> implements this very nicely, but it is a pain switching each
> machine over by editing Xservers and inittab, putting in the
> tweaks that would normally live in Xreset (for a given server)
> and making sure the command line options in inittab match up
> with the values that were being used in xdm ... so it works!
>
> Thus, I was wondering whether there was a clean way to have
> xdm start (and restart) the X on the local computer, and send
> the display off for an xdmcp indirect where it would normally
> use the xlogin interface immediately.
>
>
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