Miscellaneous Operating Systems/Hardware

Xnest and XDM

sum][one
From Italy
Who joined June 6, 2003, 4:25 p.m.
Wrote the following at March 21, 2006, 3:15 a.m...
I'm trying to remotely desktop login using Xnest... but seems not working.

was using Xdep32 on windoze .. and now that I moved to suse on my laptop i need something similar.. and tried Xnest.. but i cant get it working... it complaints about fonts that doenst find.. and maybe that's the problem... anyone have any idea?

cheers.
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sum][one
From Italy
Who joined June 6, 2003, 4:25 p.m.
Wrote the following at March 21, 2006, 12:25 p.m...
... ok I must definetly be asking silly questions... or nobody here uses Linux.

I'll try to figure it out how to remotely login via Xdm...

cheers.
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:: jean-claude

:: mimgfx dot com

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unixmuseum
From Los Angeles, CA
Who joined April 19, 2004, 4:25 p.m.
Wrote the following at March 21, 2006, 12:45 p.m...
sum][one wrote: ... ok I must definetly be asking silly questions... or nobody here uses Linux.

I'll try to figure it out how to remotely login via Xdm...

cheers.
I tried to use Xnest on Sun, and it doesn't work either... It used to work in 256 colors, but nothing goes except Xnesting to my own machine as a different user... If all you want is log into the other machine, you can always run XDCMP chooser off the GDM login window...
Bluefan
From Rekken, the Netherlands
Who joined Oct. 17, 2005, 5:20 a.m.
Wrote the following at March 21, 2006, 12:46 p.m...
sum][one wrote: ... ok I must definetly be asking silly questions... or nobody here uses Linux.

I think it's the latter, if it is a silly question, we're even more silly not knowing the answer :wink:
Personally, I'm a linux noob, and just busy learning irix...
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pipeline
Who joined Nov. 3, 2005, 10:07 a.m.
Wrote the following at March 21, 2006, 6:01 p.m...
sum][one wrote: I'm trying to remotely desktop login using Xnest... but seems not working.

was using Xdep32 on windoze .. and now that I moved to suse on my laptop i need something similar.. and tried Xnest.. but i cant get it working... it complaints about fonts that doenst find.. and maybe that's the problem... anyone have any idea?

cheers.


Xnest takes the same arguments as the regular X server binary. Try "Xnest :15 -query remotemachine" -- that will issue an XDMCP query to "remotemachine", and give the Xnest screen the display number ":15"

Note that the IRIX desktop really, really sucks under Xnest.

Another proviso: the CDE desktop will just go down hard due to missing fonts / aliases. While it's not possible to use the CDE fonts under Linux (due to their bizarre format), you *can* get a fixed set of font aliases so the thing doesn't crash, even if it does look funny.