Jonathan Allen wrote:
Jay Cliburn wrote:
Jonathan Allen wrote:
And what do you type at the shell prompt to actually start the X session
at the remote end and display it locally ?
gnome-session
That gives me all sorts of error messages and stuff at the remote end
because I am runnning my normal Gnome window manager at the local end
and it doesn't want to have two gnome sessions.
I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine,
but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system
admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part
of the standard Gnome session/desktop.
As you found out, you cannot start another window manager on display
that already has one running. The options you have, as far as I see are.
1. Just log in via ssh and run the commands you want by hand. All the
"standard Gnome session/desktop" menu items you refer to are available
at the command line, as gnome-XXX (type gnome- and hit tab).
2. If you really want the gui (why ???) Use some other technology to
allow you to have another X session running. I.e use a VNC session, NX etc.
Chris
Any ideas ?
Jonathan
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