how-to for x-terminal newbie

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:42, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> I want to setup an old lap to run as an x-terminal. I know nothing about 
> doing this yet, I only know that it can be done and think it's called an 
> x-terminal. It gives me a remote login to my main machine right?
> 
> Sadly I can't search "x-terminal" in our archive in gmane and all that I 
> found throught google was at least 3 years old. The only promising thing 
> I found was this thread on fedora-devel-list:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00757.html
> 
> ... from that list it looks like I should get to know and use LCFG
> http://www.lcfg.org/
> 
> not becaue I need it fro my little laptop, but because it's scalable etc.

Simple way:
Run 'gdmconfig' on your main machine, click the XDMCP tab and check the
enable XDMCP box, then restart X.
Set up the laptop to boot to text mode.  Start X manually with:
X -query your_server
Log into the main server.

If you want to set up a system specifically for this, check out the
k12ltsp distribution which has rebuilt fedora ISOs which will
come up ready to network-boot thin clients so you don't even have
to install anything on them.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com