Re: Newbie question -

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jean-Claude,

No.

XDMCP manages your entire X Windows session.  Either you use it at 
startup or you don't use it at all.

If all you want is a local window manager and remote applications, then 
you should launch XWin with your local window manager, then ssh into 
your remote host with X forwarding enabled and launch your X Clients in 
the background (e.g. ``xterm&'').

What did you envision would happen if you were running a local window 
manager and you logged into a remote XDMCP session at the same time, 
assuming that this was possible?  Did you assume that the window 
managers would share the screen, that a new window would popup with the 
XDMCP session?  What were you envisioning?

Harold

Harold

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:

> Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact?
> Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query,
> but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of
> my current window session.
> I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But
> there is no user called root on my system...
> Thanks.
>
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