Re: Running remote Gnome programs - problems with SSH

[Erik Bågfors <bagfors pdc kth se>]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:54:49AM -0500, Geoff Reedy wrote:
> 
> Because of this the gnome-name-service started on the remote host will not
> start up because it detects that there is already a name service running on
> the display being used, and the applications running on the remote server
> will not be able to talk to any (local or remote) gnome-name-service.  IMO
> the name service should not look to the display to decide whether to start or
> not since this is not how it communicates (unless I am gravely mistaken).
> Instead couldn't the name service ask the ORB if there was a name service
> registered already and exit if _that_ were true.

I think oaf does this right while goad (or whatever it was named) does it
wrong..  

/Erik
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