Please disregard - I found the configuration parameter. Mark On Friday 25 August 2006 12:34 pm, Mark Phillips wrote: > What determines the desktop that the user sees when he/she logs in from a > remote terminal? Is it a parameter in a file on the server? On the > X-terminal? In an vault on the Klingon home world? > > Here is the problem: > > 1. When I log into the server I get a kde desktop that I have configured. > > 2. When I use "X -query " from a remote X-terminal to the same > server, I get my usual KDE desktop on the X-terminal. > > 3. When I use a script called S-Terminal that uses ssh tunneling from the same > X-terminal to the same account on the same server I get a Gnome desktop. > > In all three cases, I am using the same login name and password. > > Information on S-Terminal can be found at > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/xterminal.html (the hack > I am using) and > http://ayesha.phys.virginia.edu/~bryan/projects/knoppix/sterminal/. > > Before I get flamed, I am not asking anyone to debug the S-Terminal scripts. I > provided the links as an FYI. > > The nature of my question is to get some hints for what I should be looking > for in the S-terminal script to find out why I get a gnome desktop instead of > my usual KDE desktop. So far, I have not found anything obvious looking for > words like "desktop", "gnome", etc. in the script. I have contacted the > authors, but no response as of yet. > > Thanks! > -- > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > 602 524-0376 > 480 945-9197 fax > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc mark@phillipsmarketing.biz 602 524-0376 480 945-9197 fax --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss