IceWM on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog /tags/icewm/ Recent content in IceWM on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:50:21 +0000 Xnest – XDMCP protocol and virtual DM /2012/10/22/xnest-xdmcp-protocol-virtual-dm/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:50:21 +0000 /2012/10/22/xnest-xdmcp-protocol-virtual-dm/ <figure style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xephyr-IceWM-Fluxbox-LinuxMint.png" target="_blank"><img class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" title="An IceWM Xephyr session is running inside a Fl..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Xephyr-IceWM-Fluxbox-LinuxMint.png/300px-Xephyr-IceWM-Fluxbox-LinuxMint.png" alt="An IceWM Xephyr session is running inside a Fl..." width="300" height="169" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">An IceWM Xephyr session is running inside a Fluxbox Xephyr session, which is running inside another IceWM Xephyr session, which is running under Linux Mint 8. (Note that Fluxbox is also licensed under the MIT license by the Fluxbox developers, but IceWM is released under the GPL and LGPL by Marko Ma?ek.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager_(program_type)">XDMCP</a> is protocol that allows remote connections and provides you with a working Display Manager like <a class="zem_slink" title="KDE" href="http://kde.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank">KDE</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" href="http://www.gnome.org" rel="homepage" target="_blank">GNome</a>, et al. Its a remote connection protocol that is mostly enabled on Solaris and disabled on most Linux boxes. If you need to have a remote session where you need the X Display to open some <a class="zem_slink" title="Graphical user interface" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">GUI</a> applications then you can have a connection with the <a class="zem_slink" title="Server (computing)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">remote server</a> with XDMCP.</p>