Couldn't you just use:

Xnest -query host -geometry widthxheight :1?

This will bring up a XDM login-screen from the desired host on display 
:1 in a window of size geometry in your current X session.

Martin

>Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:12:23 +1300 (NZDT)
>From: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Steve Rothanburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: XDM and XDMCP
>
>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
>
>> In the XDM manpages(in the chooser section), it says you can set up 
XDM to use chooser to
>> give a list of hosts you can connect to. I haven't really had time to 
look at it, but it
>> says it'll use the chooser for indirect XDMCP connections. But it 
sounds like what you
>> really want is something that I've seen on our suns. The login on the 
suns gives an option
>> to connect to other servers. I honestly don't know if the is anything 
like that available
>> for Linux, but I'd like to see it.
>
>Thats exactly what I want!
> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> Michael Beattie wrote:
>> 
>> > If you say the host is already configured (Which is good), And 
win9x
>> > clients can connect, How can I tell my X Server to connect to the 
remote
>> > host? i.e. bring up a login screen on :1 when the host is 
available?
>> 
>> 
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