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Re: Keyboard is losing itīs focus again
- To: Harold Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Keyboard is losing itīs focus again
- From: "Cord-H. Fricke" <fricke at Team dot OWL-Online dot DE>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:11:43 +0200
- Organization: OWL-Online GmbH & Co. KG
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCOEFOCHAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
Ahhh... I know what youīre meaning...
But our Linux-Box is coming up with gdm (gnomeDesktopmanager)
Iīll try to add it...
Harold Hunt schrieb:
> > I will trie that this afternoon
>
> Okay.
>
> > Hmmm, itīs a good idea to use XDMCP. But I donīt know how to use it...
> > If I typ that string "XWin.ex -screen ... -query -from..." cygwin/XFree is
> > starting...
> > but nothing more happens... Did I have to do something on my Linux-Server?
> > Or am I just to stupid to understand the problem?
>
> Most Linux boxes come with XDMCP running, but you have to be in the X run
> level (run level 5) in order for XDM to be listening for connections. If
> your Linux machine is not running in run level 5 (which is obvious if the
> login screen is running X), just login as root, and run 'init 5'. Your
> machine should then fire up XDM, and you should be able to login via XDMCP
> with Cygwin/XFree86.
>
> Let me know if that last bit works, as I'll add it to the documentation if
> it describes your situation.
>
> Harold
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