[ale] X windows woes

[Holbrook, Paul]

I would love to hear an answer to this one, as I had a similar problem: I'd find the box with a XDMCP broadcast from my Exceed client, but when I tried to log on, everything hung.

I was only able to make this work by killing gdm, which Redhat 6 spawns to handle X session requests, and starting xdm.  Since gdm appears to be intended as a drop-in replacment for xdm, I still don't understand why xdm works where gdm fails.

-- Paul Holbrook
paul.holbrook at cnn.com


> When I try to connect to my RedHat 6.0 box, it fails.  My 
> xwindows client 
> will find the linux box with an XDMCP broadcast.  Instead of 
> the normal 
> response from the other unix boxes showing connected users, 
> load, etc, 
> linux only reports gnome...
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