On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-20, Abdelkader Belahcene <abelahc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > --089e012277468313560511b679c4 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > > > I want to enter from a local machine using lightdm manager, to a > > remote server > > using XDMCP. > > > > I do it with a thin client, I mean on a thin client I have the list > > of all servers running XDMCP. > > I want to do the same, from an old PC that I want to use as a > > simple terminal. > > What software is running on the thin client? > > > > > unfortunatly, in the login window I have only local accounts on my > > local machine, > > > > is it possible to customize the login window of lightdm to allow > > access to a remote server running XDMCP? > > thanks for help > > best regards > > I'm not aware of a way of doing that with lightdm. The old gdm2 used > to have that feature, but that's long gone. You can still access an > XDMCP server directly by running 'X -query <server>' in a VT. Just to add to that, you can also do it in a window with Xnest. I know there is also something similar called Xephyr, but I'm not really sure what's different about it. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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