I have been playing with DSL on and off for about a week. I am trying to get it to connect to two different control system servers for work, both of which are unix based. I chose DSL bc of its ease to boot off of USB, which is a self induced requirement for my project.
The first server I need to broadcast for an XDMCP open server. When I try to invoke "X -broadcast", I get
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X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.
I created an empty file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, to suppress the first, but I cannot figure out what is going on in the second. /tmp/.X11-unix has root:root permissions per ls -al, and I am starting X as sudo.
The second system is VNC based, so I was curious if I would be able to run the VNCviewer as the windowmanager, or do I have to start x then run vncviewer?
Unfortunately I do not have access immediately to the servers to ply with, but I will tommorrow.While playing around with xdm/kdm/gdm I found that the Xvesa server uses the option -ac to aquire a login from XDMCP.brianw , were you able to broadcast -X into you servers ; I have been trying to do the very same thing but I have been told I need Xfree86 to accomplish it so I use NXclient to logg in to another linux distro running freeNXserver ; but if one is able to do it with broadcast -X it will be better I think.
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