RE: [coLinux-users] how to configure X

[Daniel S. <dan...@ya...>]

I have been successfully using VNC as my X server under CoLinux with gdm. I
have attached my gdm.conf. To do this, what you need to do is:

1) use vncpasswd to generate a password file for the -rfbauth option to Xvnc
- I put mine in /var/lib/gdm/.vnc/passwd

2) you need to modify gdm.conf first, change VCAllocation=true to
VTAllocation=false and comment out the FirstVT=7 line. Then go to the
[server-Standard] section and change the command to launch Xvnc with all
it's necessary options. I figured out the options I needed by running
vncserver from the command line, and then looking at the output of
ps auxww | grep X

You should then be able to use the vnc client from windows to connect to
your X server. 

I have also enabled xdmcp so I can use a windows X server - just set
Enable=true in the [xdmcp] section.

If all you want is xdmcp, then you can comment out the 0=standard linbe
under the [servers] section - this will prevent gdm from trying to launch an
X server on the local machine - it will simply listen for xdmcp requests.

Hope this helps.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: col...@li... [mailto:colinux-users-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Banibrata Dutta
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:16 PM
> To: col...@li...
> Subject: [coLinux-users] how to configure X
> 
> hi,
> 
> i'd recently go coLinux configured from networking point of view, but
> no success with running Xwindows... i mean the xdm/gdm/vncserver s.t.
> i could run some GUI apps in coLinux with display exported to Windows.
> any guidance will be appreciated.
> 
> thanks & regards,
> bdutta
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