[H-GEN] Using xdm to query remote hosts?

[Michael Anthon]

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I used to do this with xdm.  Can't recall exactly how any more and I don't
have the man pages installed.  If I understand what you are after then you
may be looking for the "indirect" option.  This causes xdm to present you
with a chooser listing all the X hosts it can locate and allows you to
launch a session to any of them.  I don't recall if there is a way to make
it display a certain list of hosts or to tell it about hosts that it can't
find directly, but there may well be a way to do it.  As well, gdm supports
XDMCP.

Cheers
Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: <ben.carlyle at invensys.com>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: [H-GEN] Using xdm to query remote hosts?


> I'd like to set up display :0 as a normal local display, but also to have
> :1 as a an Xterm capable of doing xdm logins to particular remote
> machines. I'm sure this is possible, but after browsing the documentation
> for longer than I really should have I'm none the wiser. Can anyone give
> me a hint?  :)



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