[plug] Connecting to a Linux Desktop from Mac OS X

[James Devenish]

In message <1105850974.32500.80.camel at localhost.localdomain>
on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:49:34PM +0800, Michael Hunt wrote:
> Which probably means it is using Fink's XFree package (or XDarwin) as

Shame. I tried Fink's but switched over to Apple's.

> By 'standard terminal session' I mean running the command from Apple's
> Terminal.app as opposed to from the xterm that gets stared when you run
> Apple's X11. Now that I think a bit more deeply about it the error
> message makes more sense if X is not running. 

Ah, yes. X11 must be running if you want to use X11 <grin>

> What you are getting is exactly the same thing that happens to me. This
> makes sense if what I have read is right, that is that Apple's X11 does
> not support XDMCP.

Hmm, I don't know about XDMCP because I have no use for it. I suppose
for you it is probably a convenience. However, I don't think it's
necessary. For instance, you could achieve a similar effect like this
(ksh/bash/zsh syntax):

% Xnest :1 &
% DISPLAY=:1 ssh -X my.linux.host gnome-session --choose-session=Mac

Perhaps Xnest is neither perfect nor appropriate -- I really don't know!