Remote X11

A project since long, remote X11 should be tried out now. (use my laptop to connect to my linux-box that has got a broken CRT monitor)

I use Cygwin as Unix shell on my windows box anyway, this comes along with an XServer, so that's fine.

Good links to start with:

• http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html
• http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

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Some step-by-step what was necessary for me:

On the linux box:

• no firewall in my intranet, so my linux box shouldn't lock me out
• /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs: change "daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon" to "daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon -port 7100"
• /etc/X11/fs/config: comment out "#no-listen = tcp"
• "service xfs restart" -> tried "telnet 7100" from my laptop, connects.
• "ps -ef" shows that gdm is running (Fedora Core 2) => do the gdm specific configs
• /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf xdmp section: change Enable=false to Enable=true and uncomment the Port=177 line (maybe not even necessary)
• /etc/inittab: runlevel 5 is already set as I used X earlier on on the linux box. Line is "id:5:initdefault:"
• reboot (well there's a more elegant way to restart the necessary services, someone maybe tells me)

On the windows laptop:

• It appears that this was enough, as a "XWin.exe :0 -query linux_box_hostname" was enough to present a nice X-login window to me :-) cooool!

My old X-Session settings are still there, everythings works smoothely - how nice! And not even that big of a trick :-)