Re: Using my Mac as an X terminal
Re: Using my Mac as an X terminal
- Subject: Re: Using my Mac as an X terminal
- From: Jerry Talkington <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:10:23 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:17:11PM +0200, Anders Peterson wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> ssh -2 -X user@server
>
> workd fine, but not executing /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.
>
> Last login: Tue Oct 14 11:39:03 on ttyp2
> Welcome to Darwin!
> [shark:~] apete% ssh -2 -X apete@safe
> apete@safe's password:
> Last login: Tue Oct 14 11:39:41 2003 from shark.optimatika.se
> Have a lot of fun...
> Tue Oct 14 11:43:07 CEST 2003
> /home/apete> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: localhost
> /home/apete>
What does you DISPLAY variable say?
>
> With an earlier X11 beta and SuSE 7.2 (instead of 8.2) I was able to
> get a login screen by simply issuing
>
> X :3 -query safe
>
> and having (un)commented one line in one file on the Linux server.
>
> Now I can't get it to work, I don't remember what I did, and it doesn?t
> seem to matter if
>
> DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
>
> if commented or not. Currently it is commented
Did you restart xdm after changing the files in /etc/X11/xdm/ ?
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