X-Terminal Question

[Eric "Shubes"]

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