F9 and up: XDMCP support?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Dec 22 22:20:30 UTC 2008


Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I have been waiting for awhile, understood that XDMCP support
> was to be added in at some time, but yet, it is not still there?

I hope Matthias Clasen won't lynch me for giving that suggestion ;-), but
you can use KDM (from kdebase-workspace) instead of GDM. KDM supports
XDMCP.

Install kdebase-workspace and write DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" (_not_ "KDM")
into /etc/sysconfig/desktop (create it if it doesn't exist).

There are also a few other display managers in Fedora, but they don't
support ConsoleKit, so you can have trouble with device permissions if you
use those. Thus I suggest using only GDM or KDM. If GDM doesn't work for
you, that leaves KDM.

> What is the ETA?

Sorry, I don't know, I don't work on GDM, I'm a KDE guy. ;-)

        Kevin Kofler




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