[sclug] Display graphical desktop session of remote machine?

[Alex Butcher]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, John Stumbles wrote:

> Not sure how to even explain what I'm after succinctly.
>
> I have SuSE with KDE running on this machine, and ubuntu with gnome on my 
> other box. On this machine I can 'switch user' and run another completely 
> separate graphical session on a different vty (switching between sessions 
> with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 etc). These extra sessions run on the local 
> box but I'd like to be able to run a session from the other box displayed on 
> this one, i.e. use one graphical session on this machine as an X server for a 
> display manager and apps on the ubuntu machine.

Sounds like you want to configure the display manager to manage the X server
on the other machine using XDMCP.
<http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO.html> looks like a good
starty.

> Alternatively it might be OK (maybe even better) if I could run a gdm session 
> from the other machine within a window on my kde session on this one (as I 
> have done in the past with some X servers or a VNC client running on a 
> windoze box connected to *n*x machines).

Look into Xnest, which is an X server that runs as an X client (i.e.
application) under an existing X session.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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