connecting to a local X session remotely?

SocialEngineer · 12-21-2004, 05:45 PM

I want to set up remote desktop capabilities on my Slack 10 desktop box, so I can continue doing whatever I was doing in X last from my laptop elsewhere.

So, how do I go about doing this?

I read a theory somewhere that I could run an Xvnc server on start and just connect to it locally on my desktop, as well as connect to it from my laptop - would that work? I want something stable and secure.

Also, I run BadWM on both machines, so I need to ensure that it'll capture all input (alt-k is kill, for instance).

masand · 12-21-2004, 11:07 PM

hi there

i think u need to enable
XDMCP on ur server
and then run XDMCP chooser on ur cleint then u can log in to server with X

regards

SocialEngineer · 12-22-2004, 11:32 AM

I don't quite think that's what I'm looking for.

masand · 12-22-2004, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SocialEngineer
I don't quite think that's what I'm looking for.

could u please specify , how is this different??

regards

SocialEngineer · 12-22-2004, 06:41 PM

Perhaps if you could explain the uses of XDMCP for me - the man pages just don't seem to give me enough info. Or maybe I should stop trying to read man pages when I'm tired.

masand · 12-22-2004, 11:23 PM

hi have a look here

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/procedure.html

regards

onnyloh · 12-23-2004, 01:27 AM

you have many options.
1) xdmcp
2) Vnc
3) Setup gnome or kde to accept vnc client connection
4) Use ssh (xsession forwarding)
5) VNC (configure X to accept session on :0 and so forth, for vnc version 4 and above)

currently, the most easiest 1 is to use ssh. Simply login to server with ssh, and execute any gui command, ie. xmms

The perfect 1 as in visualisation, use xdmcp.