Re: Problems using remote X in Gnome 1.2

[Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>]

Sean Murphy <murphy@erim-int.com> writes:

> What does work:  we have a NCD X terminal, that when booted shows all
> the machines in our company that are willing to manage an xdmcp
> session.  The machine I want to use shows up in this display, so I
> connect to it and again get the gdm screen.  I'm able to type in my
> login and password and it takes me to the Welcome to Gnome splash
> screen, the icons start parading across but stop at the Starting:
> magicdev point.  Normally the next icon to load would be the Sawfish
> window manager one, but that never occurs, when using this X terminal
> machine.  One other thing that looks different is that the flowers that
> are in the "Welcome to Gnome" screen look like they are at a lower color
> depth than if I use Exceed from my PC or sit at the actual Linux box.
> Could this be the problem - that Sawfish is trying to too many color for
> the X terminal that I am trying to login from?

Can you log into only an xterm or something, and try running
gnome-session from there?

Jacob
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