On August 10, 2005 09:24 am, Mike Hoye wrote: > Back in the bad old days, it was pretty straightforward to set up xdm to > log yourself into a variety of different machines - you could sit down > at your machine, fire it up and you'd have a full-on remote session on > another system, running remotely. > > Now we're in the future, and I can't figure out how to get kdm or gdm > to do that. > > What I'd like to do is twofold; one, I'd like to have two X sessions > running on my laptop, which should be straightforward, but I'd like to be > able to log into one locally and one on my server. I'm using one session, > forwarding X over ssh and running everything from a console right now, > which works fine, but is not quite what I'm hoping for. > > Ideally, I'd like the "over ssh" part to stay there, though. In a really, > truly perfect world, I'd be able to make it work like screen, and be > able to disconnect whenever I wanted and reconnect to an uninterrupted > session. > > The technology, I believe, exists - the documentation, not so much. Or > at least, not the last time I looked. If anyone can point me in the > right direction for this, whether or not it's a good or bad idea, > or whether or not it works at all, I'd very much appreciate it. I think I am looking at trying to do the same thing. What I want to be able to do is use my laptop, in effect, as a wireless display connected to my desktop machine which resides in my basement. I want all apps, even the window manager, to be running on the desktop, so that I have a seamless experience; being at the laptop or being at the desktop is identical. I am currently in the process of installing NX (http://www.nomachine.com/) for which there is a GPL-ed version of the server (http://freenx.berlios.de/) and a free ('as is' license) client from nomachine. NX supports 'suspend'. Another, more proven, but apparently slower, solution is vnc (http://www.realvnc.com/). I have no real world experience with either one, and would like to hear the opinions of others. Michael