On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Daniel Thivierge wrote:

I have install on my workstation Suse version 8.1 and running X (kde) on vt7 the standard way. There is a server (Suse 8.0) that I need to access in our LAN and was wondering how can I setup X (kde) login screen on vt8 or vt9 of my workstation. I want to run programs on the server and display the screen on my workstation.

I used VNC when I had windows before and did the telnet display thing but find it a bit long. The server has the XDMCP setup on it since I was getting the login screen with VNC.

Thanks

You should be able to run 'vncviewer' on your local SuSE 8.1 workstation and get the same kind of login screen you got on Windows. This would appear as a KDE window on one of your desktops on VT07 (display :0.0). But since you mentioned VT08, VT09, etc., you want a completely separate X display. You can do this by entering on a shell konsole window (or in the command window Alt-F2) of your local KDE desktop: Xwrapper -query <remote-system-name-or-IP-addr> :1 & This will start another X server instance on your local workstation, but query the kdm or xdm on the remote system. XDMCP is NOT guaranteed to be running on the remote system just because you can get a login via VNC--the ports and protocols used are different. If you are running kdm, you must have the following lines in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc: [Xdmcp] Enable=true or if you're running xdm, the file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config should have ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm ! !DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 (Note that xdm comment lines begin with '!') Once your 2nd X server is running, you can switch between the local and remote desktops with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. Jim Cunning