VNC and XDM/KDM under Linux

[Carroll, Patrick S]

Hello All,

How does one setup VNCServer to load and display XDM or KDM instead of the
standard X desktop?  This would be great so that users could log into the
Linux server instead of using a common username.

Thanks,
Patrick Carroll
Instrument Technical Support
ASci Automation
Office: 483-7124  Mobile Phone: 272-5692 Text Pager:
http://griwww.glaxo.com/src/personalPages/show/psc59782
Unsecure Personal Email: mailto:Patrick.S.Carroll "at" gte.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alan Cox [SMTP:alan "at" cymru.net]
> Sent:	Friday, November 13, 1998 12:02 PM
> To:	Carroll, Patrick S
> Cc:	vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk
> Subject:	Re: VNC Bandwidth use
> 
> > Has anyone done any testing to see how much "average" bandwidth VNC
> takes up
> > on a network?
> > Will there be any features to allow 1,2,4 bit transmissions for
> extremely
> > low bandwidth connections?
> 
> If the bandwidth is avaiable it likes somewhere  between 128->256Kbits,
> its quite happy with 64Kbits if not, but below that really suffers. SOme
> kind of off screen tile cache would probably be needed to work well
> on modem (note - its definitely usable over a modem in an emergency)
> 
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