And you don't specify what it was (for posterity)? ;) Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 >> > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- 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