Re: [LUG] Commandeering X

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 January 2014 17:39, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

One of us is very confused, and it may well be me.

It does seem to be inherently confusing, probably because it is such a near-useless corner-case that nobody ever needs it.

What I want:

Dismiss the mdm greeter which is on the X display and start my desktop session on that same X display, without touching the mouse or keyboard attached to the X display, using the command line *only* in some kind of background/parallel/ssh character-mode *ty login.

Crucially, no other host is necessarily involved in achieving this; a character-mode dumb terminal would suffice for getting me the command line I need. In practice, another host will be used, but *only* for logging in and displaying my terminal session via ssh.

The end result is a desktop session running on the X display ready for normal keyboard/mouse input exactly as if I had logged in using the mdm greeter -- but I didn't! Yippee!

That's as simply as I can put it.

"Without touching the mouse or keyboard attached to the X display" necessarily precludes using a Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/etc pseudo-terminal, which would otherwise be a good call, and was certainly worth mentioning.

The obvious workaround is to use the mouse and keyboard attached to the X display as God intended. This is acceptable, but I want to know, if only for completeness' sake, how I would achieve the goal set out above.

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