13 Jul
2004
13 Jul
'04
18:28
Jarod Wilson
From another message, I saw a reference to using: x -query hostname - to get into a remote X session. All that happens is I get a full screen X session (shows the pretty X cursor with the "checkered" background) but nothing happens.
What am I missing?
You have some edits to make to config files on the SuSE machine. Remote X isn't permitted by default (because of security implications). I basically followed this:
This document is rather long and obsolete. It may be enough to set DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, run SuSEconfig, and restart kdm. Do all three steps on the server, YaST2 can be used for the first two steps. -- A.M.