Re: [foxboro] Remote display manager on a moder X server?
- From: stan <stanb@xxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:17:39 -0400
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:39:44PM +0000, Warren Brown wrote:
>
> I am confused still. Is the X server starting ?
>
> wrb
>
OK, I must not be making myself clear here. Lets' star from the beginning.
The object of this exercise is to allow running Foxboro's display manager X
_client_ on an existing FreeBSD (think Linux, but more stable) machine.
This machine has XFree86 (version 4.2) running using Gnome as the desktop
with the X server capable of displaying 24 bit color.
It is a documented bug that Foxboro's display manager will core dump, if
the X server replies to it's query with more that 8 bit (256 colors) color.
So, I have gotten the FreeBSD box to run 2 copies of the X server, the
original one (brown:0 listening on port 6000), and a 2nd one (brown:1
listening on port 6001). I am then able to log into a Foxboro box, set the
DISPLAY environment to wither brown:0, or brown:1 run (for instance xterm)
and have this client display on the appropriate server on brown.
We start the remote display managers by logining in as user ia, which in turn
executes that users profile, which starts up :
/usr/fox/wp/bin/jettool -Wi -f
/usr/fox/wp/bin/blink_task -sig -r -hb 5
/opt/fox/wp/bin/default_dm
after of course setting DISPLAY to the appropriate value.
I have been able to use this setup to run remote display manager on Sum &
HP workstations, which have 8 bit color.
Unfortunately, for some reason this does not work on the FreeBSD machine,
using the 8 bit color X server.
Is that clearer.
--
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