dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 23:58 -0600, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> >> I don't know anything about dbus or hal, but we're using a FreeBSD 7.2
> >> server that we just used to connect 150 thin clients (peak load of
> >> about 100 concurrently connected right now) to it over XDMCP to use
> >> gnome.  The biggest trick was finding the magic config line to
> >> configure xdm with (since gdm's xdmcp doesn't work).
> >
> > It does now.  That was recently fixed.
> >
> > Joe
> 
> Meaning gdm?  If so, that's great!  I've never been able to use gdm
> since gnome 2.18 for one buggy reason or another, though until now it
> was always on Linux.

Yes, gdm is fixed with XDMCP.  It should work with IPv4 and v6 provided
you build it with the correct options.  I know some users are using it,
but I only used it enough to test my patches.

Joe

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