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From: bolsen@seanet.com (Bruce Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD as xterm
Date: 20 Oct 1995 12:17:47 GMT
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In article <45uof7$qtc@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
|> James F. Hranicky <jfh@cis.ufl.edu> wrote:
|> >
|> >Is there an easy way to set up a FBSD machine as simply an
|> >xterm?
|> 
|> Run xterm(1)?
|> 
|> :)
|> 
|> Perhaps you was refering to an X terminal.  Well, you can simply start
|> the X server with an argument "-query <hostname>", or you can attempt
|> to setup the choser(1) utility.  Refer to the xdm docs.
|> -- 
|> cheers, J"org
|> 
|> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
|> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

You can also start xdm and attach with an X Terminal (or windoze, etc. based
X server) via XDMCP. Both broadcast (same subnet) and direct connections work.