VNC + local X session causes problem with GNOME panel applets
Mark Mielke
mark at mark.mielke.cc
Wed Oct 29 22:52:18 UTC 2003
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:30:12PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > If I create a VNC session that is running GNOME, and then login to a local
> > X session, the GNOME panel applets all (or most) refuse to come up in the
> > local X session (and vice versa, if started in reverse).
> Stick 'unset SESSION_MANAGER' in .vnc/xstartup?
> Here is mine:
> #!/bin/sh
> unset SESSION_MANAGER
> exec ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
I finally had time to try this. It did not work. I suspect gnome-session
as started from xinitrc is defining its own SESSION_MANAGER variable before
starting the other applications, including the panel.
mark
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