Re: RedHat desktop session on OSX X11 possible?
Re: RedHat desktop session on OSX X11 possible?
- Subject: Re: RedHat desktop session on OSX X11 possible?
- From: Jim Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:30:21 -0600
Actually, that's not true. vnc lets you take over the console, but that
means only one person can use it. What you generally want with X is a
remote desktop session. In order to support that, you need to use the
standard Xfree86 distribution, not Apple's X11.app, because Apple
doesn't support full-screen X. With Xfree86, you can enable xdmcp on
the RedHat box, and then start X on your mac with the -query <host> or
-broadcast options. You'll see the RedHat login screen, and once you
log in, you'll have a full-fledged RedHat desktop (either KDE or Gnome,
whichever you've chosen) and you can switch back and forth between that
and your Mac desktop.
Here's the script I use to kick off such remote desktop sessions on my
home network. If you're not using ssh-agent to share your ssh
credentials, you can omit the "ssh-agent" and just start the line with
"X":
#!/bin/sh
ssh-agent X -quartz -broadcast # -once
I saved this as "xremote.command" so I can double-click it in the
finder to start it up.
-Jim
On Friday, Apr 4, 2003, at 19:16 America/Chicago, Heinz Wittenbecher
wrote:
On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Joe DeCosta wrote:
you dont need to startx, all you have to do is run the app you want...
i.e. xeyes, xclock, etc?
if you're looking to do something like see what you would see if you
were sitting at the redhat machine, you would need something like
vnc.....
thanks.
I'll give that a try.
<snip>
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