On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 07:03, Rick Henderson wrote: > I have installed rh 8.0 on my machine in place of w2k. I now use rdp to > connect when needed. Now what I want to do is to startkde from another one > of our other servers. > > I run xhost servername > > telnet to the server, login and run startkde. > > It looks like the x from the new server takes overs the window managers. > How would I start the new one on like <ctrl><alt><f8> >
Rick I have never done this but I would play around with the DISPLAY variable before starting kde. What is DISPLAY set to when you log in? try something like export DISPLAY=originatingmachine:1 sounds like it is defaulting to :0. you might have to have X up on the f8 console first so that :1 will exist. from a command prompt startx -- :1 HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list