Questions on X

[Brian Schramm]

I run Debian Slink 2.2 fully updated from debian.org.

I have 2 machines setup on a network in my house.  One of them has a lot
of ram and HD space for use and the other is very limited in both.  I have
my home directory maped by nfs to the large machine.  What I want to do is
use xdm to act as a x terminal on the small machine so it will not be so
slow in X when I want to use it.

I am asuming that it is posible but I cannot figure out how to configure
that.  Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Brian Schramm
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www.linuxexpert.org

{Q} Several Questions on X

[Vladislav Papayan x285]

Hello,
I have debian-hamm as of Dec. 19, (everything is libc6) installed.
I cannot seem to get X to work when I am not root.
It tells me that only root can run the server.
I thought that there might be something wrong with permissions, so
I reinstalled x-server-s3v.  It installed OK with one error saying
something
about MAKEDEV cannot do something.  I still can run X as root but
not as a regular user.

I changed /etc/X11/config to allow anybody to login, and I tried
'console' -- still did not help.
What could I be doing wrong?


Another Question I have is how to make a background image (JPG or BMP)
to appear
when I start my X session.


BTW, I did try to comment out and enable back the option that starts xdm
on start -- it did not
help.  Actually I am not sure I understand what xdm does -- when I boot
by box I still get the
regular text only prompt -- is it how it should work?  I also start my X
sessions by typing
'startx' -- is that a correct way of starting X (as a user or as a
root)?


Thanks in advance,
Vladislav

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