woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> For simple convenience you really do want to run your window manager on
> the machine you're going to be using primarily, and that's easiest to do
> by running xdm on that server and logging into it directly -- run only
> the X11 "server" process on your desktop machine. 

Can one still run with des/cookie xauthentication when one does that?
Normally xdm hides away an authentication file, such as
/var/run/authdir/authfiles/A:0-00221a so that all involved parties can
have access to the same authentication keys.

-wolfgang