<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/28 Micha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michf@post.tau.ac.il">michf@post.tau.ac.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to
log in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server.
That is, to just initialize the display, with not cursor or window
manager, to allow for creating a single full screen window for
display.<br>
I seem to recall that just running X as a user used to do it, up
to the no cursor part, leaving an empty (hetched) screen and
running the content of .xsession or something like that.<br>
Things on modern systems seems to have changed enough with all the
xsession / gdm / gnome etc. that it doesn't seem to happen
properly.</p></div></blockquote><div>I'm aware of the long thread this post has started, but just wanted to point out that I have just stumbled upon the following page (while looking for instructions for adding hamster-time-tracker applet to the Debian Wheezy GNOME 3.2 desktop, still searching) which points to /etc/gdm3/Xsession which seems to allow you to put whatever you want to run in the session:<br>
<br><a href="http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#xsessionscript">http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#xsessionscript</a><br><br>HTH,<br><br>--Amos<br><br></div></div>
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