DSL as Linux Terminals

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL as Linux Terminals
started by: i_am_ed

Posted by i_am_ed on Nov. 13 2005,20:47

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

Code Sample

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.

Posted by brianw on Nov. 15 2005,23:33

While playing around with xdm/kdm/gdm I found that the Xvesa server uses the option -ac to aquire a login from XDMCP.

Posted by dougvega on Nov. 16 2005,21:32

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.