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When I run gdm it automatically starts Xorg. How do I start gdm without X to allow remote sessions?
/Micke

JackH79 wrote:Unless I'm seriously mistaken, you can't start gdm without X. That's actually what it's for.
In the early versions of gdm it was possible and easy. Just edit your "gdm.conf" file and take out the local X server configuration (§ 2.2.7 in http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightl … x135.html). You could have a (headless) server with gdm to serve the XDMCP clients. Good setup to propagate NC's
But that is in the past now. My guess is that the use of XDMCP (http://www.linuxjunkies.org/html/XDMCP-HOWTO.html) is discouraged nowadays. Maybe the plain-sniffable usage of TCP/IP causing this.

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