Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:46:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Cc: questions@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an X Terminal? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961218233726.258F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199612190228.UAA09916@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > Somewhere I thought I saw a reference about using FreeBSD as an X Terminal. > Today at work the boss was at home, sick, so when the opportunity presented > itself, the mice played. So today we installed FreeBSD on a poor > unsuspecting user who has been having no end of trouble with a DOS based X > server. :-) > Installed FreeBSD 2.1.6R and XF8632 on a Gateway 486DX33 w/ 8M. Xdm > presents a login dialog (as expected) but also includes a console window at > the bottom. We'd really like to get rid of that console window. How? Modify the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 and comment out the xconsole line there. > But even better than getting rid of the console window on xdm's login, we'd > much rather have an X chooser displayed where the user could select the > system she wishes to login, Just The Way She Always Did It Before. Basically attach the terminal to another machine? I tried to do this once and failed. One way I've seen to do it is from the command line with a command like: startx -query x.session.on.some.machine.com This starts X connected to that machine. I think :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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