vncserver & twm in fc2

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Fri Jul 9 21:49:50 UTC 2004


Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:22:01PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
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>>Why on earth would anyone want to use twm?  You want to move anything to 
>>extras, it's that.
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>>So, why are the calls to the system xinitrc commented out?
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>Ideally the xinitrc stuff would be sufficient.  But the situation
>often arises that a user logs in normally via gdm and then runs
>vncserver.  In a perfect world that would work fine, but over the
>years both KDE and GNOME have had serious problems with this.
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>The current GNOME doesn't work at all with two concurrent sessions for
>the same user, for example (see bugzilla).
>
Yeah, I heard about that one, but haven't searched bugzilla yet. :-/

That is two or more gnome sessions per system, right?  IIRC, the 
hostname is part of the session name.

Mike





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