2012/2/28 Micha <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> > For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log in > remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. That is, to > just initialize the display, with not cursor or window manager, to allow > for creating a single full screen window for display. > I seem to recall that just running X as a user used to do it, up to the no > cursor part, leaving an empty (hetched) screen and running the content of > .xsession or something like that. > Things on modern systems seems to have changed enough with all the > xsession / gdm / gnome etc. that it doesn't seem to happen properly. > I'm aware of the long thread this post has started, but just wanted to point out that I have just stumbled upon the following page (while looking for instructions for adding hamster-time-tracker applet to the Debian Wheezy GNOME 3.2 desktop, still searching) which points to /etc/gdm3/Xsession which seems to allow you to put whatever you want to run in the session:
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#xsessionscript HTH, --Amos -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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