Hi Ryan,
try 'gnome-wm'. When I run it here where it is already running, I get
a complaint, of course:
.Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a
window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the
current window manager.
Which is exactly what I'd expect.
I might misunderstand what you're trying to do, though. Your mail
implies your X11 server (in X terminology, that's the machine right in
front of you) is running Windows 2000. In principle you can run an
X11 window manager on a remote client with X-forwarding to your local
server, although this is usually not recommended because it may
perform slowly. But I would assume that Windows 2000 considers itself
the window manager, and not allow others to window manage, so you
might get an error there, and Windows might not even appreciate being
'--replace'd :-)
I don't understand why you would want a remote host to "start up X" --
who would see the X display?
No idea about kde, though.
Christian
Excerpt of message (sent 11 March 2003) by Ryan McDougall:
> How do you start KDE or GNOME manually? I am trying to do
> XForwarding and I can get a terminal up and running on my work box
> (Windows 2000) on X-Win, but I want to be able to start KDE or
> GNOME. I have my remote host starting up X automatically so I know
> has started, that and I tried startx and it gave me some errors.
>
> I tried 'startkde', 'startgnome', 'kde', 'gnome' a bunch of others
> too. I tried searching for some sort of executable on the linux box,
> but with no success. Just tried a google search for 'Starting KDE
> or GNOME in RH8.0' didn't turn up anything too useful. I believe all
> I am missing is the command to start GNOME or KDE then I will be up
> and running.
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