Running remote GNOME session

[John Summerfield]

lpoulsen wrote:
> I have a shiny new Fedora 8 system with GNOME.
> When I log in locally, everything is nice.
> 
> Now I am trying to login from my Windows XP desktop,
> where I have PUTTY (ssh) and MicroImages X server
> installed.
> 
> I can login with ssh, and set the DISPLAY variable.
> xclock comes up just fine on my X server. But when
> I type "gnome-session" into my ssh-provided
> bash session, a red rectangle flashes for an
> instant on my X display, then I get this message
> on the bash session:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 296 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> aborting...
> Aborted
> 
> Any idea what is wrong and how to fix it?

1. use vnc.
2. I actually prefer to do it the other way, login to Linux then 
rdesktop (tslcient is a wrapper for rdesktop) to the dosbox. I maintain 
Windows Server 2003 this way.

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Cheers
John

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