== On Fedora 8 and later or Centos 5 and later == In a X11 session, run gdmsetup. Go to page 2 (remote) and tick "Same as Local". Close gdmsetup. Open it again to make sure it saved, Sometimes it needs to be done twice. == To set up Clients == On Thin clients, you connect this using a X11 or xdmcp configuration. On Backup computers that are rsync'd from the main computer, Go to gdmsetup, page 3 (Security). Click on Configure X server. Modify VT0. Change type to "Terminal". In the Options, add "-query ". Restart the whole computer for it to take effect. To undo this, and make it a normal server: edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf . Delete the whole line with your -query option above. This has to be done when converting backup computer to main.