X Server display from console vs. other location

[pcarver]

Howdy.

I'm trying out Exceed to access my RH Linux from Windows. It works nicely, but I have one question. To get things to work, I modified my .bashrc to

set DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1

to have the display pointed to my windows computer. This is fine when logging in from windows, but when I log back in to the console, it outputs the display back to my PC.

What I would really like is to have the console boot in text mode, then access the X login from my desktop. If I don't boot in X mode, I can't seem to get things to work. If I have to boot in X mode, then how do I make it so that a console login doesn't have the DISPLAY line executed?

Thanks.

/paul

 

[walta]

Hello Paul,
I´m not shure, but you should not alter the bashrc generally, make this only for the users who have to log in on a Xsession.
F.e. the user paul has an X login the user foo not.
When you log via exeed as paul, you´ll get the X session
if you login as foo, who has no X you´ll get the tty-terminal.

HTH walta

 

[ianf]

You should be able to access via Exceed using the XCDMP broadcast mode. This shouldn't need any changes to your login shell or environment. Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

The problem here is that to get a full X session running you need to use XDMCP (as per above) but that requires you to be running either XDM, GDM (gnome version of XDM), or KDM (KDE version of XDM) - i.e. the graphical logon manager. If you set you system to default to console mode (runlevel 3 or equiv) then such a display manager would not be running.

What you probably should do is code something in your $HOME/.bash_profile that ascertains where you are logging on from and sets the DISPLAY environment variable accordingly.

Hope this helps