Re: Running remote Gnome programs - problems with SSH

[Erik Bågfors <bagfors pdc kth se>]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:21:34AM -0500, Geoff Reedy wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:15:09PM +0100, Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk> said
> > 
> > My understanding is that there should only be one name service running per
> > session/display. The name server sets a property on the root window which
> > contains the IOR of the name server.
> 
> But if the name service is responsible for resolving CORBA stuff, what does
> that have to do with X?  ...or is there more that the name service does that
> I don't know about (which is quite possible).

Somewhere you need to find the name service.  The gnome-guys decided to put
this in the root-window of the Xserver.

You can find it with 
xprop -id `xprop -root | grep GNOME_NAME_SER | cut -d# -f2`

/Erik
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