X-Terminal Question

[Mark Phillips]

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 at phillipsmarketing.biz
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