Managing Non-XDMCP Network Displays

Older X terminals may not support XDMCP. For the login server to display a login screen on this type of X terminal, list the X terminal name in the Xservers file.

Since the display is on the network, display_name includes the host name as part of the name. The display class can be used to specify resources specific to a particular class of X terminals. (Your X terminal documentation should tell you the display class of your X terminal.) The display_type of foreign tells the login server to connect to an existing X server rather than to start its own. In this case, an X_server_command is not specified.

Example

The following lines in the Xservers file direct the login server to display a login screen on two non-XDMCP X terminals, ruby and wolfie:

ruby.blackdog.com:0 AcmeXsta foreign 
wolfie:0 PandaCo foreign