RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86

2003-02-03 Thread Blackard, Robert
Well, I'm a bone-head. Turns out to be much simpler than I was making it. I wanted the X server running on my system, but the window manager et. al. to be running from the remote machine. I simply started X on my local machine under cygwin, connected to the remote machine via ssh, and executed t

Re: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:18:34 -0600 "Blackard, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Cygwin/XFree86 and ssh on a Windows XP box to access a RedHat > 8.0 machine remotely. I am able to log in and start KDesktop, but I > can't get access to the menu (bottom of the screen with the popup > that l

RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86

2003-02-03 Thread Blackard, Robert
the kdesktop or fvwm main window?   -Original Message- From: Doug Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86   Here is the problem I think you are going to

RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86

2003-02-03 Thread Blackard, Robert
wm main window?   -Original Message- From: Doug Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86   Here is the problem I think you are going to run into. Not

RE: KDesktop geometry for remote access via Cygwin/XFree86

2003-02-03 Thread Doug Johnson
Here is the problem I think you are going to run into. Not only are you going to have probmes seeing the menu but if you minimize the desktop (which you should be able to do in your scenario) and then max it back up your start bar will now be behind the desktop. This is because they are two