How to export terminal to F9 using r-tools?

Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 21 16:40:13 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:46:00 +0100
> "Marcelo M. Garcia" <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> How do I enable my Fedora 9 (x86) to accept terminals from other 
>> machines using r-tools? I cannot use ssh -X in this case.
>>
>> I tried to configure using /etc/gdm/custom.conf in the "xdmcp" option:
>> Enable=true
>> Port=177
>> but it is not working.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marcelo
>>
> 
> The last time I fooled with this, it appeared as though the -nolisten tcp
> option is hard coded in the program that gdm uses to start the X server.
> The best idea I've had is to replace the X server with a C program that
> fiddles with the option string then exec()s the original X server
> (but I haven't actually done it :-).
> 
> I ran it under strace and couldn't find anything that looked like a config
> file it might be opening or trying to open to get server options.
> 

Hi.

It should be something simple. I know in opensuse 10.x you have open the 
port 6000 in the displaymanager file. But I could not find something 
similar in Fedora.

Thanks

Marcelo




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