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: Tim Hewett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:55:04 +0100
It's true that VNC servers normally take over the console
on computers, e.g. on Windows and MacOs X, but on Linux
they actually act as a new local X display. So if the local
console X server is display 0, you can have multiple VNC
servers acting as displays 1, 2, 3 etc., all independent and
the console can still be used independently too.
Thanks for the advice about remote desktop sessions though,
I'd like to do that too. Right now I just shh to the remote machine
from the xterm that starts with X11.app then type "startkde".
The whole kaboodle starts up in full screen as if you'd just
logged in on the console (and full screen *is* supported,
including games and the animated screensavers). It took a
lot of poking around Mandrake Linux startup scripts to find out
how to do this though. It's nearly there but proper remote X
sessions would be even better, perhaps the full release of
X11.app will bring it.
Tim.
On Saturday, Apr 5, 2003, at 07:01 Europe/London,
email@hidden wrote:
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.
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