Problem with Fedora Core 2 remote kdesktop

Bruce Satow satow at ssl.berkeley.edu
Sat Nov 6 03:36:42 UTC 2004


Thanks for the info Rex.   I actually found it by accident.  I will try 
startkde instead.  Is there a similar command for gnome?

-Bruce

Rex Dieter wrote:

> 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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