On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > >From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read > > through > > all the blurb and changed the config line to include the &KDE option and > > then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, > > but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could > > get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console > > window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. > > Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but > > it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very > > unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me > > much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the > > Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were > > sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using > > KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. > > You're most likely getting mwm or twm as the window manager - so you're > going to have to double check all your configurations so that KDE is the > default wm - for both the regular system AND for VNC.
KDE is the default on all 6 machines. I never run any other wm here so I can't see why it won't use KDE when it's added to the VNC config file. If I follow the example config files as shown on the VNC site and in the readme file to the letter, VNC still defaults to twm. Are the settings in this config file copied to another part of the system on the first running of VNC and have subsequently been over-riding the config file after I have changed it, and if so, doesn't that defeat the object of having a config file? I made the changes to the file, saved it and even tried a complete power-down of the system but still end up with twm. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!"
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