remote X display

[albi at saynotomicrosoft.org]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> All I want to do is use a laptop in a local network to be an X client
> connected to a more powerful desktop machine.  I'm not worried about
> security.
> 
> Is xhosts and the DISPLAY variable all I need?  Or do I need to go through
> all of the xdm configuration hoops?

you can do the following :

run gdm on the server, start gdmconfig as root, enable XDMCP
then on the client start X as following :
X -query ipaddress_of_your_server