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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!odinn!bolsen 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 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 21 Sender: bolsen@odinn (Bruce Olsen) Message-ID: <46841b$9ns@kaleka.seanet.com> References: <45m2v2$gj1@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> <45uof7$qtc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: odinn.seanet.com In article <45uof7$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.