Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY.
If you ssh -X you cannot startx. you could for example start kdevelop or konqueror and they will start like you were in teh remote computer. If you want to have access to your desktop you have to use remote desktop connection that I think is in the internet section in the task bar. However, you have enable the remote computer to accept remote connections. You do that by opening the control center in the remote computer and in internet you select allow remote desktop connections. If you are under a firewall be sure to enable the port which is going to be used for remote desktop connection. Finally in the inetservices in Yast you have to enable VNC server. That should work. Jose
Jose Sanchez wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY.
If you ssh -X you cannot startx. you could for example start kdevelop or konqueror and they will start like you were in teh remote computer. If you want to have access to your desktop you have to use remote desktop connection that I think is in the internet section in the task bar. However, you have enable the remote computer to accept remote connections. You do that by opening the control center in the remote computer and in internet you select allow remote desktop connections. If you are under a firewall be sure to enable the port which is going to be used for remote desktop connection. Finally in the inetservices in Yast you have to enable VNC server.
That should work.
Jose
Thanks! I was really trying to avoid that option as there is a timeout and I would have to keep inviting the target box to join. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jose Sanchez wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY.
If you ssh -X you cannot startx. you could for example start kdevelop or konqueror and they will start like you were in teh remote computer. If you want to have access to your desktop you have to use remote desktop connection that I think is in the internet section in the task bar. However, you have enable the remote computer to accept remote connections. You do that by opening the control center in the remote computer and in internet you select allow remote desktop connections. If you are under a firewall be sure to enable the port which is going to be used for remote desktop connection. Finally in the inetservices in Yast you have to enable VNC server.
That should work.
Jose
Thanks! I was really trying to avoid that option as there is a timeout and I would have to keep inviting the target box to join.
There is always the option of enabling XDM (X display manager) to provide a true remote desktop as opposed to a VNC style desktop which is simply a redirection of the console.
Michael Ferguson wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jose Sanchez wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY.
If you ssh -X you cannot startx. you could for example start kdevelop or konqueror and they will start like you were in teh remote computer. If you want to have access to your desktop you have to use remote desktop connection that I think is in the internet section in the task bar. However, you have enable the remote computer to accept remote connections. You do that by opening the control center in the remote computer and in internet you select allow remote desktop connections. If you are under a firewall be sure to enable the port which is going to be used for remote desktop connection. Finally in the inetservices in Yast you have to enable VNC server.
That should work.
Jose
Thanks! I was really trying to avoid that option as there is a timeout and I would have to keep inviting the target box to join.
There is always the option of enabling XDM (X display manager) to provide a true remote desktop as opposed to a VNC style desktop which is simply a redirection of the console.
Are there any HOWTOs on doing that? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Michael Ferguson wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jose Sanchez wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Can I open a KDE desktop on another computer on my network? I've tried using ssh -X name@host and then startx, but I get an error about the DISPLAY.
If you ssh -X you cannot startx. you could for example start kdevelop or konqueror and they will start like you were in teh remote computer. If you want to have access to your desktop you have to use remote desktop connection that I think is in the internet section in the task bar. However, you have enable the remote computer to accept remote connections. You do that by opening the control center in the remote computer and in internet you select allow remote desktop connections. If you are under a firewall be sure to enable the port which is going to be used for remote desktop connection. Finally in the inetservices in Yast you have to enable VNC server.
That should work.
Jose
Thanks! I was really trying to avoid that option as there is a timeout and I would have to keep inviting the target box to join.
There is always the option of enabling XDM (X display manager) to provide a true remote desktop as opposed to a VNC style desktop which is simply a redirection of the console.
Are there any HOWTOs on doing that?
Quite a few: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=xdm+howto+suse&btnG=Search&meta= But this proved useful: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162994 I didn't find anything specific to Suse 9 but all of the howto's are similar and should work just fine.
Quite a few:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=xdm+howto+suse&btnG=Search&meta=
But this proved useful: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162994
I didn't find anything specific to Suse 9 but all of the howto's are similar and should work just fine.
Note that SuSE has made modification to the XWindows / XDM setup so as to allow you to choose the display manager during login. Due to this, you'll find some of the stuff in the VANILLA how-tos don't apply. Unfotunatetly I've never found a place that describes what. But I do remember of hand that Allowing XDM module to be accessed remote (required for your setup) YAST2 has a setting for this. JErry
On Monday 26 April 2004 09.13, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
Note that SuSE has made modification to the XWindows / XDM setup so as to allow you to choose the display manager during login.
I beg your pardon? That's a feature I must have missed. How do I enable this?
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 09:21, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 26 April 2004 09.13, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
Note that SuSE has made modification to the XWindows / XDM setup so as to allow you to choose the display manager during login.
I beg your pardon? That's a feature I must have missed. How do I enable this?
Yast2->System->Editor for /etc/sysconfig files +Desktop ¦ +--Display manager ¦ Check out options here...
On Monday 26 April 2004 09.48, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 09:21, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 26 April 2004 09.13, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
Note that SuSE has made modification to the XWindows / XDM setup so as to allow you to choose the display manager during login.
I beg your pardon? That's a feature I must have missed. How do I enable this?
Yast2->System->Editor for /etc/sysconfig files +Desktop Š +--Display manager Š Check out options here...
aha, ok, that's not how I read "choose [...] during login" :) That only affects which program /etc/init.d/xdm will run, it has no bearing on the configuration of kdm/gdm/wdm/xdm/whateverdm, so most "vanilla" FAQs will be valid (although the one indicated earlier in this thread is probably valid on no system at all, as it seemed to tell readers to activate the server as an X client, as well as configure three different display managers at the same time :)
On Monday 26 April 2004 09.56, Anders Johansson wrote:
That only affects which program /etc/init.d/xdm will run, it has no bearing on the configuration of kdm/gdm/wdm/xdm/whateverdm, so most "vanilla" FAQs will be valid
Rereading what I wrote, I realise that it's a bit confused. What I meant to add but never got around to was that the variables you can set in that file doesn't change the way those programs are configured, the sysconfig interface is just another way of editing some portions of the config files. When you run SuSEconfig after editing it, the normal config file is updated. You are still free to do it the "vanilla" way if you so choose
Hi, I have dummy server where I would like to run only xdm portion that will accept remote X clients with no local desktop. I guess this is possible, but how ? Regards, Robert.
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