X-Terminal Question

[Mark Phillips]

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!
> -- 
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc
> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> 602 524-0376
> 480 945-9197 fax
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Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
602 524-0376
480 945-9197 fax