On Wed, 31 May 2000, Biju Chacko wrote:
Do we have to make any changes in the host linux box for the desktop to
come up. is some tinkering with th e files needed. I donot understand
about kde script. if the desktop comes on the client(right from the
initial login), the window manager will automatically start, without
running the script etc. Isnt it so?
> -- On Wed, 31 May 2000 "Rajil Saraswat" wrote:
> > i have exceed and aslo have mix. but i am not able to figure out how
> > to bring up whole of the desktop of linux on my machine.
>
> I have not used eXceed, but I can say that MiX is pretty flakey. I've
> had fairly good results with X-WinPro (search TUCOWS). As for getting
> "Linux Desktop" -- you have to remember that in both Gnome & KDE the
> desktop is the end result of numerous programs. It's not like Windows
> where the entire desktop is provided by explorer.exe.
>
> Under KDE, the startKDE script will start all these programs for you.
> This always bombed under MiX for me.
>
> Which brings me to my doubt: what is the order of scripts executiuon
> when you run "startx" ? I'm sure it's documented somewhere but I
> haven't found it yet (Admittedly, I haven't looked yet. :) ).
>
> regards,
>
> Biju
>
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