David Woyciesjes wrote:
As one who has only fooled around with second-hand or junked parts, I have never experienced any SUN equipment or Solaris OS... they just are not laying around the junk yards that I frequent <g>. I can visualize what you are describing, and it sounds like it might be a useful "feature".-SNIP- < Hmmm... this is the kind of info I've been waiting for. But one question. On my SUn Ultra1, running Solaris 9, the login box comes up, to login locally, and there is a menu option to flip to a chooser to login to a remote machine. I can login to my Debian/x86 box fromt there, or login locally to Solaris. Is there a way to get this same option in gdm/xdm on a Debian/x86 box?-- ---Dave Woyciesjes ---ICQ# 905818
The closest approximation I can suggest is to set up GDM for the "chooser" mode. I can login to my local machine just as well as any other machine running xdmcp on my LAN.
For practical matters, to suit my tastes here, I usually boot up to the "normal" GDM login screen on F7 then start up a "chooser" session on F8 as I described before whenever I need it. I can switch between the two by (ctrl-alt-F7 <--> (ctrl-alt-F8). My reason for this is that I do a significant amount of re-booting (experimenting) of my local machine and I like to have the ability to re-boot from the GDM login screen. You can configure GDM to do this via the "System" option. I haven't yet found a way to do this "shortcut" from the Chooser screen. I have to exit to a terminal session (ctrl-alt-F2) then shutdown/reboot from the terminal prompt. Not a big deal... I just prefer to use the mouse to click on the normal GDM "system" then "reboot". The drawback is that I currently have to manually start the "chooser" session each time I reboot. I am probably not saving anything by doing it this way.....
BTW, You can get just about the same functionality using VNC. Its setup is different, and it seems a bit more awkward for me to use. I have always had a tough time getting the display sizes and depths just right for my tastes. One advantage of VNC that I have found is that you can startup sessions to different machines on different "pager" windows. You can then switch between machines via the "pager" in GNOME or KDE.
You can also use ssh to run specific X apps on a remote machine and have the display local. Each method has its strengths and drawbacks...
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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