Re: Problems using remote X in Gnome 1.2
- From: Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-list yakk net au>
- To: Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>
- Cc: Sean Murphy <murphy erim-int com>,Gnome List <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Problems using remote X in Gnome 1.2
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 02:28:16 +0800
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:28:33PM -0400, Jacob Berkman wrote:
> 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?
We get this from helix debs of gnome-session. It complains about a missing
XFree86 extension (thats what gnome-errors shows).
Ian
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