kdm chooser setup

Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy mbellamy at kc.rr.com
Thu Aug 1 15:40:24 BST 2002


I'm sure I'm using kdm, which I believe uses a lot of xdm's 
configuration files.  At least, changes to /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc 
affect my environment.

Johnny Withers wrote:

>Do you actually have KDM running in the place of XDM?
>Or, are you using XDM to login?
>
>---------------------
>Johnny Withers
>johnny at mindbender.net
>p. 601.853.0211
>c. 601.209.4985 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: kde-admin at mail.kde.org [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org] On Behalf
>Of Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy
>Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:10 PM
>To: kde at mail.kde.org
>Subject: [kde] kdm chooser setup
>
>
>Mandrake 8.2, graphical login
>KDE 3.0.2
>AMD1600
>
>First post and I hope this isn't an annoying repetition, but I've 
>searched my user group, the KDE newsgroup, and the archives with no 
>luck.  Anyway, I'm looking for the best way to open a 
>MI/X/Exceed/Excursion session to my Linux network server, except I want 
>to do this from a Linux workstation (not thin client).  From my 
>research, I think I need to configure kdm's chooser to broadcast a query
>
>for machines on my network willing to export their displays.  I *think* 
>this is implemented as a dropdown select box on the graphical login 
>screen listing willing hosts.  Now, I can access my network server with 
>MI/X, so I know I have XDMCP working, but the login doen't display the 
>select box.  I've enabled XDMCP on the Linux workstation just as I have 
>on the network server including the following in Xaccess:
>
>*
>*    CHOOSER    BROADCAST
>
>BTW, I have to use a the graphical login.  I've seen similar questions 
>asked quite often in the newsgroup with no response (working response, 
>that is), so any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
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