Newbe with question about xdmcp

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:37, Ben Clewett wrote:

> Odd.  I start it using the CygWin DOS command:
>
> start Win -query %KDE_HOST% -no decoration -less pointer -ftp
> tsp/%KDE_HOST%:7100
>
> Which has always just worked.  Which is why I liked it so much.
>
> But 0.0.0.0:0 can also mean NULL, as in an uninitialised variable.  As
> in the previous comment 'kdm_config[26231]: Can't read from core'.

Hmm, perhaps there is some corription in the config file and KDM isn't reading 
relevant portions.

> I did notice that 'xdmcp' was hard to configure.  Had to be completed by
> hand.  Setting up font servers, dabbling into very confusing security
> protocols, sometimes getting KDE applications starting on the wrong
> desktop.

I only did it manually once, just removing comments from the standard config.

Can you try a second XServer on the same machine using XDMCP to connect to 
KDM?
For example Xnest running in the first session,

> Do you know whether future KDE models might have a more robust mechanism
> set up for xdmcp?

Sorry, no idea.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum
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