Has anyone got the remote X-Win32 running?

[Brad Pitney]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Robert Chalmers
<robert.a.chalmers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read the spots off everything I can find about getting X going, and I
>  have it all up and running sort of.
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>  But only sort of.
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>  I have X-Win32 trialling on a laptop, and want to be able to connect to the
>  Xserver - but I just can't seem to do it.
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>  To give you a run down.
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>  I have X working.
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>  I have KDE working.
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>  I have the /etc/ttys entry set to:
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>  ttyv8  "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm  on  secure
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>  ..  (I note that kdm is much prettier, and appears to work Just as well)
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>  I have the entry in xdm-config commented out.
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>  ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
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>  /root/.xinitrc contains "exec startkde"
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>  Ok.
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>  Using 'xdm' , booting brings up an oversize font LOGIN -PASSWORD display.
>  Very ugly. (kdm looks nicer, but I'm following the manual)
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xdm can look nice.

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>  Neither xdm or kdm, let me log in as root.
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>  I have to go Ctl+alt+F1 to get to the good old terminal window.
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>  Now, the main problem is .. Which is a real pain, as I do need to connect to
>  this thing remotely.
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>  I can't connect from the remote laptop's X-Win32 program xterm emulator
>  program.
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>  Has anyone managed to get any remote, xterm emulators going? And how so?
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you know, I'd recommend X over ssh, although I used Xming, there 's a
package with it bundled with putty

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming

even comes with pretty good documentation

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>  Thanks if you can help - I'm almost there.
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>  Rob
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Best regards,
 Brad