Comments on: Manage Linux Workstations Using Xming

By: mooncaptain

mooncaptain — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:06:44 +0000

Ubuntu 8.04 – maybe other versions and distributions too.
regarding the clipboard. I got this off the X-Ming site:
If you connect via XDMCP to a system that uses gdm, and have a problem with the clipboard, you should add (or modify) this section in the gdm.conf file (or /etc/gdm/custom.conf) <<>>

[daemon]
KillInitClients=false

and then restart gdm with gdm-restart. Also some X Display Managers do not work well anyway with the Xming clipboard. So just try using standard ‘xdm’ as an alternative.

Don’t forget the gdm-restart. If you can’t find it then reboot. This goes for the other changes mentioned above. Nothing works until the X manager is restarted.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:09:22 +0000

To Mooncaptains comment:

I have the same issue here with Ubuntu 8.04 and Gnome Desktop.
It just shows this brown-orange screen. (Windows Vista, Xming).

But, I got the KDE Desktop running with the very same settings in Xming – I just changed the session on the logon screen to KDE.

I’ll do some testing later with the clipboard option disabled as you mentioned.

By: Mooncaptain

Mooncaptain — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:35:02 +0000

I agree that for remote login to Ubuntu from Windows XP this is by far the best solution. I also had some trouble getting my remote desktop to show up. That is, I was able to connect ( I wasn’t refused), I entered user name and password, but only the background color of the desk top would show. Eventually I tried de-selecting the the clipboard option and I was able to login successfully. I still haven’t sorted out how to enable this option and get a connection.

By: Johan

Johan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:43:08 +0000

I discovered your blog looking how to get sound with xming and looking on your other posts, i realise your blog is so great! a fav for admins’ hacks!

greetings from a gentoo user!

By: Aleksej

Aleksej — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:03:22 +0000

I discovered by accident that the problem was ESD. So if you go in the sound preferences and disable ESD, it may work again. I can’t be sure at 100%, as it seems there are several reasons for this problem.

But that was very clearly the reason for me, now I can login quickly no matter what.

Hope it helps.

By: Abhi

Abhi — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:27:13 +0000

When I try connection using putty, I get a message saying connection refused
Do you need to have ssh server running on the ubuntu side ?

By: blandname

blandname — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:51:02 +0000

Hi John,

It looks like you have your local X server running just fine, but are not attached to the Ubuntu X server. Try looking into whether or not you have the right IP address for the host, and also make sure remote login is enable on the remote host.

By: john

john — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:40:11 +0000

I’m not able to get XMDCP logins to work with Ubuntu 6.10 and Xming. After the login screen I just see a blank desktop with a cursor. Any chance you know the secret handshake for this?

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Xming to the rescue? at shadowsector.org — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:39:12 +0000

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By: Azio’s Computer Log » Concept Of the Month: X over SSH

Azio’s Computer Log » Concept Of the Month: X over SSH — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:19:50 +0000

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