minimum xorg install for clients side

[Anders Trobäck]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:24:08 +0100
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Anders Trob??ck wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:38:42 +0100
> > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run
> > > xorg clients, but no server. What ports do I need
> > > to install? xorg-apps?
> > > 
> > > many thanks
> > > anton
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Not 100% sure what you are asking, but if you want to run, let's say
> > xterm, just install xterm!
> > 
> > If you want to have a remote GUI logon with XDMCP install XDM, GDM
> > or KDM then you can start X with the -query parameter!
> > 
> > If this wasn't what you where asking please ask again:-)
> 
> sorry, I wasn't clear.
> 
> I have 2 FBSD boxes: a server with no graphics card (S) and a laptop
> (L). I want to run X applications on S and see the results on L.
> The applications I run on S are typically xpdf, gs, xfig, display,
> firefox, etc.
> 
> While I could install ports/xorg on both boxes, this is probably
> excessive. Since I won't run any xorg applications on L, I probably
> don't need xorg-apps on L. Likewise, since I'm not running xorg server
> on S, I probably don't need xorg-server on S. This is my basic
> understanding of xorg server-clients model. Is this logic correct?
> 
> However, I'm not sure on what box (S, L or both) I need:
> 	xorg-libraries
> 	xorg-fonts
> 	xorg-drivers
> 	xorg-protos
> 
> 	etc.
> 
> many thanks
> anton
> 

If you are after a real minimal installation with XDMCP you can do like
this:

On S:
x11/xdm

On L:
x11-servers/xorg-server
x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel (or what ever card you have)
x11-fonts/font-alias
x11-fonts/font-cursor-misc
x11-fonts/font-misc-misc

Configure X on L:
X -configure
X -config xorg.conf.new
cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Configure XDM on S:
Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

Start XDM on S:
xdm
(if you want it to start after reboot look for a line about xdm (ttyv8)
in /etc/ttys, change off to on)

Start X on L:
X -query S


Hope that helps:-)
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