Remote Desktops

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant at cdkkt.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: Remote Desktops


>
> Hi all,
>
> I like to use 'remote desktop' aka VNC for doing all of my
> work remotely but I have a big problem.  It seems that alot
> of my superuser required gui's such as up2date, synaptic which
> pops up the su-login dialog box and password is entered but
> after that, nothing.  I seems to be forced to run su-required
> guis on the console only which they work.
>
> Any pointers?

Don't know about synaptic but you can call "up2date --nox" to run it in text
mode.