Re: [gdm-list] Getting GDM to look for Hosts doing an XDMCP broadcast

[Damian McGuckin <damianm esi com au>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ray Strode wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Damian McGuckin <damianm esi com au> wrote:
> > How do I get GDM to look for 'xdmcp' queries and then let me select the host
> > to which I connect.

> Configure your X-terminal to do an indirect query to the machine running 
> GDM.  When GDM detects the indirect query, it will put a host chooser up 
> on the machine that did the indirect query.
>
> (for instance, Xorg -indirect hostname-of-gdm :123)

I am basically trying to use Linux Mint as an X-terminal.

When I type

        Xorg -indirect hostname-of-system-running-gdm

it tells me the current system, i.e. already has X running on it.
My guess is some idiot stripped the code out.

Eventually I managed to run KDM on this Linux Mint and so far, KDM still 
has full XDCMP capability, i.e. in and out.

I can configure this to run a chooser and it works. Whoo-Hoo!

I am running this on a Tiny VIA box with 2D acceleration only.

When I use it locally, I am using the XFCE window manager.

When I log-into the remote GDM system, I also run

Unfortunately, KDM is no longer the default Window Manager for KDE. They 
now use SDDM which has also stripped out XDCMP because the developers for 
some reason think XDCMP is not used any more.

Regards - Damian

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