Opening desktop via X Window

[Tony Frame]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Puleston" <ian at underpressuredivers.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, 26 May, 2005 1:10 AM
Subject: Opening desktop via X Window


> Hi,
>
> I've just been experimenting with using the CygWin X-Window server on a
> Windows PC at work to connect to my Linux PC at home. Works great, but
> something funny just happened. I had been hoping to open a window with the
> whole GNOME desktop, but couldn't find anything in the documentation on 
> how
> to do that, so I'd resigned myself to running individual apps in 
> individual
> X-windows. But then I tried running Nautilus. In an XTerm window I typed
> "nautilus &" and a Nautilus file browser window opened up, but then a 
> minute
> or so later a 2nd X-Window opened up displaying the desktop. Psychic 
> Linux!
>
> So, is there a command that will run a desktop directly rather than going
> via that path?
>
> Ian
>
>
gnome-session&

works for me.

You may also want to adjust the "run xwin" line in the cygwin startxwin.bat 
file. I prefer :

run XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error

Tony