This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Re: Newbie question -
- From: Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com,Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:37:26 +1100
- Subject: Re: Newbie question -
- References: <006f01c28cf2$b5c5ab40$6501a8c0@sprymusic.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 9:02 am, 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.
You could try
$ Xnest :1 -query <host>
This will give you an XDMCP session in a window inside your current XSession.
Rasjid.