dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Nathan]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 5.  And add this line right below it:
>>
>>       exec gnome-session
>
> I see. So your users don't have $HOME/.xsession files?

Not that I know of.

>> 7.  Edit /etc/ttys so that the ttyv8 line has on instead of off so it
>> looks like:
>>
>>       ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure
>
> I start xdm manually. I was under the impression the above line
> wouldn't work on a headless box.

Works fine on my headless box.

> Few more questions, if you please:
>
> What architecture are your XDMCP server and the desktops?
> Do the users start X with -query <ip of the XDMCP server>?

server is 7.2-RELEASE-amd64.  Clients are HP/NeoWare e90 thin clients.
 I don't know the specs exactly.

The thin clients use their built-in gui, but from my mac I can connect
fine with "X -query (ip) -once"

~ Nathan