as an alternative you could try 'vnc'
it does remote control screen sharing -there's an RPM on the new CD
Gavin
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>From: Jonathan Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] remote xwindow : help needed
>Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2000, 10:52 AM
>
> i don't know if this helps at all, but i have a similar problem,
> and the cause might be the same.
>
> if i su to root, and then start kfm as root, then i get the
> root's kde desktop on top of my desktop.
>
> not sure how to prevent this, but i assume it is a bug in kfm.
>
> this problem seems only related to kde running on a local host.
>
> you might want to post to the kde list, or check their archives.
>
> j
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Hans Schneidhofer wrote:
>
>>hi,
>>
>>I've discovered a seldom behavior with remote xwin. Have a little homenetwork
>>with 4 PC's. 3 PC's are allowed via ssh and xhost to communicate directly, so
I
>>can start an application from PC 1 on PC 2 or 3.
>>
>>So far so good. But now I makes an ssh to the remote-box, and was calling
>>
>>kfmclient folder file:$HOME
>>
>>the remote kfmclient appears, but also appearing is the remote kde-desktop
>>overlaying my existing kde-desktop. Hmm, is anybody in this list, who could
>>explain or show me, how I can prevent such an overlaying behavior ?
>>
>>Was doing that for sysadminjobs like : looking for double-directory-entries on
>>my complete system. For example comparing the doc-directory, info-directory
and
>>much more. With the results I can make one doc (info, man)-server and so on.
>>Or is there available a better tool for such jobs anywhere ?
>>
>>Thanks for your help. It's really welcome.
>>
>>bye Hans Schneidhofer
>>
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