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Author: Mark Phillips
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Subject: Re: X-Terminal Question
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 <server-name>" 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!
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> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc
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