-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:33 pm, Michael Weber wrote: > Option B is to use VNC which gives you the entire Gnome/KDE desktop > environment. There are pluses and minuses, speed and security being two > that flash to mind quickly, but you get the whole #! (that's 'shebang' > not a swear word) rather than just the single X-app. That doesn't work as well as I had hoped. I set up VNC on my laptop and connected from the XP box my employer provides. I could get a KDE desktop in the VNC session but after shutting down VNC, I couldn't launch new apps on the console. :-( Apparently shutting down the one session stops the dcop server for all sessions. I didn't investigate further but went back to using fvwm and xterm. > My $0.02. > > -Michael > > If Bill Gates had a penny for every time Windows crashed...... Oh wait, > he does! > > >>> christian@xxxxxxxxxx 03/11/03 01:38PM >>> > Excerpt of message (sent 11 March 2003) by Ryan McDougall: > > More like Windows 2000 is running an X11 emulator. > > Agree; I didn't express myself clearly. Windows 2000 with X-Win is > your X server. While at work, that's what you use *in place of* > xstart/XFree86 and gnome-wm/metacity. > > Dave Tibbals put it better than I could: > > You don't need to invoke gnome or kde from the terminal on your > > windows box to get the gui's of the applications > > You explain, > > Well because I am forced to use Windows 2000 here at work and I > > would like to utilize some of the gui tools on my linux box... > > Makes sense. As Dave said, just type the name of the tool into your > terminal window. (Try, e.g., 'xclock' to see immediately if X11 is > set up right.) > > I maintain that there's no point in starting up an X server on a > remote machine. > > Maybe your original question could be rephrased, "how do I get gnome's > panel to start up applications from a menu instead of typing their > names?" -- You could try running 'gnome-panel'. I didn't have much > luck under cygwin/X -- the panel comes up, but then crashes; the > message is "file obox.c: line 107 (get_class): should not be reached". > > Christian > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > - -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt =========================================== The difference between robbery and taxes is simple: The first is someone threatening to hurt you if you do not give them your money. The second is legal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+b1EoSEs8eqGTwqYRAmJ7AJ98pulQrn8YhnO1cjcCIP90NduZjACgji6L frhD2Ja1Fdgkq0tb723jcH8= =34+w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
