On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately
> when I try to start an X session from here (startx) it doesn't work.
>
> What more do I need to do?
On the desktop you need to run xdm. You can put it in /etc/rc.d/*
somewhere.
On the laptop, you login in text mode and run "X -query xxx.xxx.xxx.xx"
where xxx... is IP address of the desktop. Or you can run "X -broadcast"
to get a list of servers "willing to manage" your laptop screen.
cheers,
Hossein
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