Re: X-Terminal Question

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 <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
>> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
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