Re: Problem with Fedora Core 2 remote kdesktop

[Bruce Satow <satow ssl berkeley edu>]

Thanks for the info Rex.   I actually found it by accident.  I will try 
startkde instead.  Is there a similar command for gnome?

-Bruce

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Bruce Satow wrote:
>
> > Dear Folks,
> >
> > At work, on my WinXP Pro computer,  I start Exceed (x server), then 
> > run my SSH client to connect to my home linux server.  I have set up 
> > my SSH client to tunnel all X11 connections.  I  can run all my X 
> > applications this way.
> >
> > When my server at home was running under RH9.0,  I could SSH in (as 
> > described above) to my home server from work, and at the linux prompt 
> > typed the command 'kdesktop'.  Then the entire KDE desktop would 
> > appear on my remote computer. 
>
>
> Dunno how/why it worked before, but AFAIK, the proper way to start kde 
> is with the 'startkde' command, not kdesktop.
>
> --  Rex