minimum xorg install for clients side

[Anders Troback]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:17:11 +0100
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Anders Trob??ck wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:24:08 +0100
> > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Anders Trob??ck wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If you want to have a remote GUI logon with XDMCP install XDM,
> > > > GDM or KDM then you can start X with the -query parameter!
> > > > 
> > > > If this wasn't what you where asking please ask again:-)
> > > 
> > > sorry, I wasn't clear.
> > > 
> > > I have 2 FBSD boxes: a server with no graphics card (S) and a
> > > laptop (L). I want to run X applications on S and see the results
> > > on L. The applications I run on S are typically xpdf, gs, xfig,
> > > display, firefox, etc.
> > > 
> > > While I could install ports/xorg on both boxes, this is probably
> > > excessive. Since I won't run any xorg applications on L, I
> > > probably don't need xorg-apps on L. Likewise, since I'm not
> > > running xorg server on S, I probably don't need xorg-server on S.
> > > This is my basic understanding of xorg server-clients model. Is
> > > this logic correct?
> > > 
> > > However, I'm not sure on what box (S, L or both) I need:
> > > 	xorg-libraries
> > > 	xorg-fonts
> > > 	xorg-drivers
> > > 	xorg-protos
> > > 
> > > 	etc.
> > > 
> > 
> > If you are after a real minimal installation with XDMCP you can do
> > like this:
> > 
> > On S:
> > x11/xdm
> > 
> > On L:
> > x11-servers/xorg-server
> > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
> > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel (or what ever card you have)
> > x11-fonts/font-alias
> > x11-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> > x11-fonts/font-misc-misc
> > 
> > Configure X on L:
> > X -configure
> > X -config xorg.conf.new
> > cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > 
> > Configure XDM on S:
> > Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-xdm.html
> > 
> > Start XDM on S:
> > xdm
> > (if you want it to start after reboot look for a line about xdm
> > (ttyv8) in /etc/ttys, change off to on)
> > 
> > Start X on L:
> > X -query S
> 
> Anders thanks
> 
> I tried to follow your guidelines, but cannot see the login prompt
> after X -query S. I also cannot see port 177 open on S, only:
> 
> 	6000/tcp open  X11
> 
> Should 177/udp and /tcp be open on S? How to do this?
> 
> I've the following line in /etc/ttys:
> 
> 	ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon"    xterm   on  secure
> 
> and:
> 
> % ps ax|grep xdm
> 38718  ??  Is     0:00.08 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon ttyv8
> 44523  ??  Rs     0:17.61 /usr/local/bin/X :0
> -auth /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/auth 44524  ??  Ss     0:08.04 xdm: :0
> (xdm) 45544  v4  RL+    0:00.01 grep xdm
> %
> 
> and I commented out this line in xdm-config 
> 
> !DisplayManager.requestPort:    0
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> 
> many thanks
> anton
> 

How does you /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess look?

Try to put:

LISTEN xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where the xxx thing are the ip of S!

-- 
Anders Trobäck
http://www.troback.com/
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