[ale] Running like a thin client after boot up in Xubuntu

[Jim Kinney]

Yep. Your looking at a remote X arrangement. Basically the X server starts
and tries to connect to a remote machine for everything. In Login Window
Preferences go to Security and click on "Configure X Server".
Then change server to start from Standard to Chooser.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have an older laptop, also recently donated to GOSEF, that works
> reasonably well with Xubuntu using a PCMCIA card for Ethernet, so I went
> ahead and installed it.  I'd really like to use it as a thin client
> since one of the schools I did recently had a break-in and lost 4 of the
> laptops I'd set up previously there as thin clients.  Is there an easy
> way for me to have this laptop fully boot in Xubuntu while hanging off
> the network switch that the K12LTSP server uses to feed the thin
> clients, and then automatically launch a remote X session on the server
> so it can run apps off the server like the other thin clients?
>
> Thanks, Daniel
>
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