Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:08, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Randy Kramer wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:47:33PM -0500 : > > > > Whether I have DESKTOP=KDE, DESKMANAGER=KDM, or both in the > > /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, the system goes directly into KD

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Kramer wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:47:33PM -0500 : > > Whether I have DESKTOP=KDE, DESKMANAGER=KDM, or both in the > /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, the system goes directly into KDE. urpme autologin Blue skies... Todd - -

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Randy Kramer
On Thursday 27 March 2003 02:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:45, Randy Kramer wrote: > > On Thursday 27 March 2003 12:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Just curious here... what does start does it go straight into > > > kde? Whether I have DESKTOP=KDE, DESKMANAGER=KDM

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 22:14, James Sparenberg wrote: > ... > > > > > > > > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin > > > > > > Aside: This link did not work -- not sure if was intended to be on topic > > > or not. > > > > > > regards, > > > Randy Kramer > > Jack > >if this helps.

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Randy Kramer
On Thursday 27 March 2003 12:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > Just curious here... what does start does it go straight into kde? I'm not 100% sure -- guess I'll have to try it again. I assume that it always started at the graphical login screen, but that's just a (possibly wrong) memory -- it

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:03, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:07, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Jack and > > > > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > what's it say in /etc/sysconfig/desktop? > > > > It did say (only): > > > > DESKTOP=KDE > > > > In response

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:07, Randy Kramer wrote: > Jack and > > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > what's it say in /etc/sysconfig/desktop? > > It did say (only): > > DESKTOP=KDE > > In response to a suggestion from James Sparenberg, I added: > > DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM >

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:57, Bob Brickey wrote: > >Sounds like you are using startx to start kde if so this > >means you are at run level 3 not 5 ... no problem. In > >etc/inittab change this ine. > > > >id:3:initdefault: > > > >to > > > >id:5:initdefault: > > > >this will put you in runlevel

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread Randy Kramer
Jack and On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > what's it say in /etc/sysconfig/desktop? It did say (only): DESKTOP=KDE In response to a suggestion from James Sparenberg, I added: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM I've just rebooted, and KDM still fails to start. (As determined by ps -

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread Bob Brickey
Sounds like you are using startx to start kde if so this means you are at run level 3 not 5 ... no problem. In etc/inittab change this ine. id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: this will put you in runlevel 5 (graphical) from the go. Then in /etc/sysconfig/ there is a file called desktop

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread Randy Kramer
Jack, Thanks for your response -- some followup interspersed below: On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:40 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 04:38, Randy Kramer wrote: > > I had some trouble getting a Mandrake 9.0 installation to act as an > > "application server" accessed from an X termi

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 04:38, Randy Kramer wrote: > I had some trouble getting a Mandrake 9.0 installation to act as an > "application server" accessed from an X terminal. I finally got it > working -- I found that kdm (or xdm or gdm) was not running (even > though I was using kde locally (on th

[expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-26 Thread Randy Kramer
I had some trouble getting a Mandrake 9.0 installation to act as an "application server" accessed from an X terminal. I finally got it working -- I found that kdm (or xdm or gdm) was not running (even though I was using kde locally (on that machine) just fine. I started kdm, and after a few fa