Hint for unhappy XDMCP users

Uwe Laverenz uwe at laverenz.de
Sat Jan 31 02:49:56 PST 2009


Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb:

> since many people are missing the XDMCP feature in gdm-2.24:
> How about using
>     # Xorg -query <remote-IP-address> :<display-number>
> 
> [Mind you have to set display-number to something different from default 
> 0 , p.ex. 1 or 2 , if you are calling from inside a running Xorg].
> 
> Works with xorg-7.4 .

Thank you for your effort, but GDM 2.24 is broken on _both_ sides
(local and remote):

- there is no XDMCP-Chooser anymore on the local side

- GDM does not listen to XDMCP requests on the remote side


Uwe



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