RE: Newbie needs help getting GUI

["Peter Urban" <purban at kfa-inc dot com>]

Thanks for the quick response! I'm not certain which environment is
available on the Red Hat machine and I don't have physical access to it.
It's running Red Hat Enterprise 4.

I tried 'ssh -Y username@hostname gnome-session' and get the
following...

(gnome-session:6144): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Then, I tried 'ssh -Y username@hostname startkde' and get the
following...

/usr/bin/startkde: line 70: xsetroot: command not found
/usr/bin/startkde: line 189: xset: command not found
/usr/bin/startkde: line 192: xset: command not found
/usr/bin/startkde: line 202: xsetroot: command not found
startkde: Starting up...
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Abortin. $DISPLAY is not set.
Warning: connect() failed: :No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: :No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Is there something that must be configured on the Red Hat workstation?


Thanks again!
-Peter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
> Subject: Newbie needs help getting GUI
> 
> 
> Depending on the desktop environment you have to run different 
> programs
> which startup the GUI:
> 
> Gnome: gnome-session
> KDE: startkde
> CDE: dtsession
> X11: ~/.xinitrc
> (this will do the same as startx)
> 
> You can start a single program by typing it's name:
> 
> $ mozilla
> $ gimp
> 
> You can add this to the ssh commandline for easy access:
> 
> ssh -Y username@hostname gnome-session
> 
> This will login and start the remote gnome desktop.
> Please note that running the remote desktop with multiwindow mode will

> result in a strange window layout, so are best used in the windowed 
> mode (omiting the -multiwindow parameter).
> 
> bye
> 	ago
> --
>  Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 
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