On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Cliff Wells wrote: > Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I'm trying to use a RH 8.0 > box as an X terminal. I know there are several projects afoot for doing > such a thing, but none of them meet my needs. Further, this should be > doable with a stock RH install. > > The situation is this: I've got a customer with two existing SCO > Openswerver systems who wants X terminals. The SCO box is at a remote > site (across the country, actually) so I'd like to avoid making any > changes to it (try talking long distance to someone without any > technical knowledge into setting up DHCP using vi on SCO sometime). I'd > like to just ship him the RH box and be done with it. > > So, changes to the SCO box are plain out. The plan I have is to set the > Linux X terminal up to respond to "X -indirect localhost" calls by > providing a gdmchooser window. > > The problem is that when it boots up, I'd like it to display gdmchooser > rather than the gdm login screen (so he can select between the two SCO > hosts). I've tinkered around with /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf to no avail. > Google spits up reams of info, none of which seem to work. > > Any suggestions? >
Cliff, Well, the only reason that I have a suggested solution to this is because I had the same problem myself. Suppose that is the whole point of this list, right? :-) If you look in gdm.conf, at around line 261 or so, you will see the section for servers. Normally, the Standard server is used, and gdm ships with the Standard server being /usr/X11R6/bin/X. What you need to do is first comment out the reference to the 0 server being Standard. A little farther down in gdm.conf, around line 279, uncomment #0=Terminal -indirect serverhostname and change serverhostname to localhost. Optionally, if you want your customer to be able to log into the X terminal itself via gdm, set the parameter handled=true for the server-Terminal configuration. hth, Kevin -- Peace, Love, and Linux! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
