Remotely using KDE

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Friday 14 December 2007, D. R. Evans wrote:
> I have X11 forwarding working fine. For example, I can open X programs on
> the remote machine and windows open correctly on my screen.
>
> But using a window manager remotely is different because it requires a
> (logical) display of its own on the local machine. I haven't been able to
> figure out how to do that.

If you want to log into a remote box on your local tty10 or whatever, that 
sounds to me like you want to be playing with XDMCP.

I don't know that I've ever gotten a scenario quite like you want to work, and 
I have no idea how to do this now that we don't have init anymore.  I used to 
edit /etc/inittab and put stuff in some of the other ttys to run something 
like X -query remote_machine, but I have no clue how to do this now.

I had the terminal set up with a different KDM on tty 7, 8, 9 that defaulted 
to each of three users, all logging into my main machine from the other side 
of the house.

I got rid of this setup when I got better quality hand-me-down junk computers 
that could run well enough on their own that I no longer needed to use them 
as terminals to get access to my main fast box.  Plus when I started getting 
into more heavy audio stuff, the extra parasitic users were just wasting my 
CPU cycles.  I eventually off-loaded them to my wife's computer, to burn HER 
cycles, and then I eventually got rid of the whole setup.

But XDMCP sounds like the magic thing you need to google.

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D. Michael McIntyre