Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:47:00 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au> To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm for remote hosts only? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908151045490.11193-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908132115001.19184-100000@sasknow.com>
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Hi everybody... > > Just wondering if there's something I missed in the XDM manpage that will > allow XDM to run in the background as an XDM server for remote hosts only, > and NOT start up an X session on the local computer, nor require logins > for X sessions on the local computer. > > I realize that an X server must be running for remote logins to work. > However, what I would like to see happen is for the X server to start, > then switch me back to my terminal screen. (Without having to hit the > obligatory Ctrl-Alt-F# key combination :-) > No, you don't have to run an X server at all. Look at the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and you should see down at the bottom a line telling xdm to start a server on the local host. If you comment this out you should be ok. I don't even have an X server binary on this computer, and everything runs ok. Iain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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