Starting a remote X login.

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the last meeting someone ask me how to start a XDMCP / CDE
login from their Linux box to a Sun workstation.  
(like Hummingbird's Exceed on a PC)

I've never tried this with Sun, but I do it all the time to HPUX
with the following command from an xterm window:

X :1 -once -query hpbox
# (replace "hpbox" with the hostname of the remote workstation)

Or put it in a shell script passing the hostname of the remote
workstation as the first argument:


#!/bin/sh
X :1 -once -query $1


Then you can use CTRL-ALT-F7 & CTRL-ALT-F8 to switch back and
forth between your Linux desktop and your remote desktop.
(assuming you have 6 virtual consoles configured on Linux)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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