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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Remote X from *dm.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:49:55AM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:49:45AM -0400, Michael Walma wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This part is easy.  You run an X server with nothing on it, and then
> run the X session (window manager, etc.) on the target system,
> pointing at your server with the DISPLAY environment variable.  I've
> done this plenty in the old days.

No offence meant but you'll need to spell that out a little bit more
clearly for it to be helpful to me, because:

- The phrase "An X server with nothing on it" means nothing to me.
Does that mean that the tower in my basement does something involving
XDMCP? Or does it mean something else?

- How do I get a modern window manager to acknowledge that I want
to speak to something remote? As I understand it, "xhost +whatever"
_permits_ my laptop to talk X to my desktop, but doesn't actually make
it happen.  What does? Ideally, here, this would be part of the pull-down
menus that the display managers provide. The $DISPLAY envvar should take
care of itself in this scenario.
 
> The tricky part, and the part I'm assuming people are trying to figure
> out here, is how to disconnect the session and reattach it later. I've
> never tried that.

That'd be gravy if I could make it work, but that's not the meat of what
I'm after.

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