[geeks] OSX and remote console

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Tue Feb 3 19:17:54 CST 2004


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I think Brian is asking about how to start off a CDE login session, as
> opposed to running an X11 application or two on the mac...
> 
> i.e. have X11 desktop take over his current Mac -a s if he were at a
> Sun graphics console...
> 

Whenever I need to do something like this I generally use Xnest so I get 
it in a window, ie

Xnest :1 -query $REMOTE_SERVER

this assumes you've got xdmcp on $REMOTE_SERVER ready to handle requests.

Caleb



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