GDM from obsolete machines Coincidentally, these days I released "beta forever 0.85" of manual
About recycling had to do in school, wrote a few steps that I hope will be helpful to someone. Excerpt from page 146: *****************************
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Sometimes we have the other complete desktop Linux in our Linux. The trick goes through
Ask the session manager (GDM / KDM / XDM, etc) on the server machine, allowing us to pass remotely. In Ubuntu / Debian, the default session handler in GDM.
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on the client machine where we can start the connection, create an instance of X to point to the servant. -
There are many ways to do that, and sometimes varies slightly according to the distro we use. Just write XDMCP on Google to find several recipes. In Ubuntu the most simple is:
The computer server create a file / etc / gdm / custom.conf, with the following contents:
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# GDM configuration storage
[xdmcp] Enable = true
DisplaysPerHost = 15
[chooser]
[security]
[debug]
Reboot, or if we hurry, we stop the GDM service:
sudo / etc / init.d / gdm stop
This brings us down to the TTY1, and leaves us in text mode. Logueamos us again in text mode, and restart the service:
sudo / etc / init.d / gdm stop
The client computer can be given three situations -
That already exists an X in progress. This is called Display: 1.0. If you do not want stop all our work in progress, and we want the desktop switches between local and remote, we go to tty1 by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1, and from there wrote -
sudo X: 2.0-query
ipDelServidor This will open a welcome on the remote server, similar to Windows Terminal Server!
A customer who does this is also
gdmflexiserver .
X That course does not allow us to "Switcher" to text mode. Some distros have this behavior. In that case, we lower the GDM customer premises, with -
sudo / etc / init.d / gdm stop
And then run in text mode where instruction is not necessary to declare the display to use: is default: 1.0
sudo X-query
ipDelServidor
This is my favorite: the client computer is so outdated, they can hardly lift a graphics mode. It happens with multiple machines at a state school in which I am a manager in the morning shift. The procedure is very simple: at the station obsolete, try one of the tricks above. If I have success, installed in any of the scripts that start in / etc / init.d gdmflexiserver the call or the call to sudo X-query, and the season starts on the servant. In limited cases, the obsolete install any Linux distro for very, very old machines, as PuppyLinux, Damm Small Linux, or Linux Deli, just to hack the / etc / init.d, / etc / rc.local, and make the call to the server from there. -
recycled machine, and without spending a peso!
What if the computer is so old it does not even have hard drive? In that case install LTSP, or some of its variants: Thinstation, or TCOS. This so I have some 486 and Pentium 1 fully usable.
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Goodbye everybody!
I left most expensive shipping, u $ s 14, and if I had known about this thing called Black Friday and the% 40 off, I brought The Rspec Book for $ s 30 building shipping. 
