I got Gnome to work OK. It must be a problem with KDE 2.0.1. Exceed seems to
behave strangely also. I will investigate this but at least I have something
working. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:57 PM
To: NewbieLinux-Mandrake Com
Subject: RE: [newbie] Exporting X
Tagbo,
There is a directory in your user dir named ".vnc" without the quotes. In
that directory is a file called "xstartup". Go into that file with your
favorite editor and comment out everything in it by placing a "#" at the
beginning of each line. Or you can delete every line except for the first
one (#!/bin/sh).
Once you have done that add a new line at the bottom of the file. For me
since i use the KDE desktop mine line reads "exec startkde". For gnome on a
basic stock instal the line should be "exec startgnome". If you use
something else or have modified your installation you may have to go look
for the startup program that starts the window manager you want to use but
in a nut shell it should follow a format of "exec
/dir/where/windows/manager/is/windows_manager_program_name".
Note, none of these will work if you remove the first line from "xstartup"
(#!/bin/sh).
In reply to someone else's post about VNC being slow. On my lan i don't have
any real slowness problems unless i start to use some really graphic
intensive programs such as most of the games. Then things get bogged down.
For using it in day to day operation for managing my linux box as a
file/print server and internet masq'er i never really notice any slowness.
And anyways, i can deal with some slowness from time to time since i didnt
have to pay anything for it. :)
Ian K. Harrell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Exporting X
>
>
> how did you get the VNC desktop to match your Linux desktop? All
> I get is a
> screen with one xterm and no icons or anything else
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Exporting X
>
>
> It is possible but for me it was a pain to setup and i wasnt very
> satisfied
> with it when i did manage to get it setup but this might have
> been caused by
> me not doing something correctly.
>
> To make a long story short, i found a program called VNC which basically
> does the same thing and was much easier to setup and work with.
>
> check it out at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
> It also allows you to export windoze desktops to a linux machine
> as well and
> they have their own mailing list in case you do have any problems with it.
>
> Ian K. Harrell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Hallam
> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:22 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: [newbie] Exporting X
> >
> >
> > hi all,
> > i was wondering if it was possible to export the KDE desktop to
> > an X-Client
> > running on a windows machine
> > i.e. using the MI/X or and equivalent product......
> >
> > if it is possible would anyone knew of any documentation out
> > there to do it
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
>
