This isn't working as well as I thought. If I get this figured out, I'll post an update. Back to the drawing board... Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote: > I wanted to get KDM to display a list of XDMCP hosts willing to export > their displays. A very simple GUI is presented to the user listing > hosts identified by a broadcast for willing hosts. There is > practically NO documentation explaining how to get this done with KDM, > but tons of people asking the same question. Anyway, the solution was > to edit the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. There should be a call to X > next to a 0:localhost display indication. You need to add the option > -indirect . Make sure you add this > option FIRST to ensure that X doesn't treat the your parameter as a > command-line argument. I've been battling with Mandrake 8.2 on this > one for about 3 weeks, and I can't believe that a solution was nowhere > to be found :( > > Also, if you installed KDM from RPMs as I did, you could have a path > problem. KDE2 installs its executables in /usr/bin while KDE3 uses > its own directory. You want to make sure that your installation is > calling the correct kdm version. The solution I used was to edit > /etc/X11/prefdm and make sure that the KDE3 executables directory is > prepended to the PATH variable in that file. > > If you need more clarification, feel free to contact me. I just > figured this out last night, so I haven't yet reported the solution to > any other forums. > > >