On 02:49:32 Nov 23, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > I have been trying to establish an Xnest connection to an OpenBSD > 4.2 machine without success. > I do not care about security - in this particular application. > > 4.2 is using a newer Gnome and the config files are reorganized. > But they do not appear to be the names/locations as newer Gnome faqs > indicate either. > > With comments snipped my /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf is below. Yet my > Xnest never gets past the grey checked background screen. > I have no problem Xnest'ing to other systems. > > [daemon] > RemoteGreeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmlogin > [security] > AllowRemoteRoot=true > RelaxPermissions=2 > DisallowTCP=false > [xdmcp] > Enable=true >
I know what you are talking. You have to set the MAGIC COOKIE field manually. For instance, $ Xnest :2& And it will give you a root weave pattern on a separate window. Now you can run any application inside this X server like this. $ xclock -display :2 will display an xclock inside the nested Xserver. This did not work for me until I used this script. Perhaps you might find it useful. MCOOKIE=875d5e5ed1dec9c5259dcc4239206f55 xauth add $(hostname)/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE xauth add localhost/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE Xnest "$@" xauth remove $(hostname)/unix$1 localhost/unix$1 exit 0 The xauth authentication does not go thro' for some reason on OpenBSD systems. Then it will work. Best of luck! Of course you said you don't care about security. :) Let me know if it works. Thanks. regards, Girish
