On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:58:19 -0500, Mike Branda <mike@wackyworld.tv> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 01:00, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:00:46 -0500, Logan Tygart
> > <thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:26 -0800, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:33:26 -0500, Logan Tygart
> > > > <thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:11 -0800, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:49:16 -0500, Mike Branda <mike@wackyworld.tv> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:49, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:20:37 -0500, Knowles Burrell <kburrell3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Here is what I found when I did a find...
> > > > > > > > > > root@fpac-dev:/# find -iname xstartup
> > > > > > > > > > ./etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
> > > > > > > > > > ./etc/kde3/kdm/Xstartup
> > > > > > > > > > root@fpac-dev:/#
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Oh, I also do not start up X on this machine unless I want to start
> > > > > > part of the KDE stuff.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, I am just butting in here, but when you login via vnc, do you get
> > > > > the KDM login screen? If so, why don't you just select the GUI, of you
> > > > > choice, from there?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No I get a KDE screen. I do not have a gui login on my machines, I boot
> > > > them all to the CLI and then startx if I need it.
> > > >
> > > <snip>
> > > In continuation of my butting in, if you use the CLI, why use vnc? Why
> > > not use ssh?
> > >
> >
> > Indeed I do, but I also want to be able to use the GUI, this is more for some
> > demo stuff than anything else. Normally I use the CLI for this box.
>
> Adding to Logan's butting..... ;^) You are aware that ssh has an X
> forwarding option right (big -X)?? If an X server is running on the
> remote box, ssh me@remotebox -X, enter password, type startkde, mozilla,
> or whatever the command is for fluxbox. Be careful with starting the
> Desktop environments. If you have an X server running locally and no
> Desktop environment (ie an X failsafe terminal) you're o.k. but if you
> try to start a remote kde inside of a logged in local kde session it
> does strange things. Programs themselves are fine in any way you invoke
> them. I ssh -X into work from home and run evolution on my work machine
> to check the calendar and such. It's really fast. You can do it on a
> localnet too. The only difference is that you don't control someone
> else's Desktop session, you have your own with ssh.
OK, do I need to do this from a CLI, or do I do it from a Xterm while the
xclient is running on the end I am viewing from?
This machine is running SuSE 9.1 and KDE. I wonder if the KDE remote
interface is actually telling the far end to bring up a VNC session under
KDE?
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
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