Problem with Fedora Core 2 remote kdesktop

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Nov 5 11:39:17 UTC 2004


Bruce Satow wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 
> At work, on my WinXP Pro computer,  I start Exceed (x server), then run 
> my SSH client to connect to my home linux server.  I have set up my SSH 
> client to tunnel all X11 connections.  I  can run all my X applications 
> this way.
> 
> When my server at home was running under RH9.0,  I could SSH in (as 
> described above) to my home server from work, and at the linux prompt 
> typed the command 'kdesktop'.  Then the entire KDE desktop would appear 
> on my remote computer. 

Dunno how/why it worked before, but AFAIK, the proper way to start kde 
is with the 'startkde' command, not kdesktop.

--  Rex




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