How to use XDMCP+GDM and Xnest?

Posted by João Pinto on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by João Pinto
Published on 2010-11-03T15:16:04Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 7:59 UTC
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I have been trying to enable XDMCP on GDM without much success. Following some instructions I have edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf and added:

[daemon]
RemoteGreeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-xdmcp-chooser-slave
[xdmcp]
Enable=true

Then restarted gdm and tried to connect both locally and from a remote system with:

Xnest :1 -query localhost
Xnest :1 -query remote_system_hostname

I just get a black screen instead of the GDM window as expected. I am missing something ?

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