Thanks Jim. The -once trick works.

Next question...
Is there a way to get sound to work? It's not a big deal, but it would 
be really cool. Sound works on each computer when logged into their own 
X servers, just not when logged in remotely.

Regards,
Tim

Jim Bonnet wrote:

> To disconnect from the X server after 1 query you need to send -once :
> 
> X :1 -query foo.com -once
> 
> Should get you going.. It will fire another X server(assuming you are already 
> running one-otherwise omith this) on :1, query foo.com and allow you once you 
> logout from kde or whatever to exit X session without the 
> bomb(cntrl/alt/bksp).. Also you may wish to implement the desktop chooser.. 
> This is quite cool, you will be able to have a drop down menu with different 
> machine X sessions you want to log-into. Takes some futzing with and you will 
> probably need to run xdm instead of kdm.. man xdm for the chooser setup.. 
> This does the same as above but the chooser listens for xdmcp broadcasts and 
> allows you to choose from them..
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Tuesday 10 July 2001 19:40, you wrote:
> 
>>Matt,
>>This worked flawlessly. Well, not quite flawlessly, I had trouble
>>disconnecting from the server. I ended up switching to a console
>>(ctl-alt-F1) and killing X and kdm. There's gotta be a better way to close
>>the session than that.  I'll keep looking into it.
>>Thanks,
>>Tim
>>
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