<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1480" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>I just discovered the nifty Cygwin/X and am currently using it to remote login to a linuxserver.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>In following your 'cheatsheet' on setting up desktops using XWin (and others).</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>I ran into some barriers while following the instruction for remote desktops.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a wireless laptop with Cygwin/X loaded and seems to work which I downloaded from the Cygwin page around Feb 6 2005.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>1. I launched XWin :0.0 -clipboard (I get a gray background screen with the 'X' as the cursor.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>2. I don't see any menus xterms etc on this window to run the ssh -f -Y command.  Why not?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>My second attempt used the alternate procedure:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>1. Copy the .xinitrc file over to my home directory.  The default command at the</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>    end of this file is an 'exec xterm <blah blah...></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>2. I typed 'startx'. The XWin server is up and I got an Xterm.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>     (Q: the font size on this xterm is extremely small-- possibly font size 3. How do I</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>     change this?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>3. I typed the ssh using the -f -Y <A href="mailto:root@linuxserver">root@linuxserver</A> gnome-session</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>4. I am prompted for password and entered it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>5. The login goes through, then complains that it could not find  commands such</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>    as xrdb xsethost and others and quits, logs out and puts me back on my</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>   local machine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>    Debug steps I took:  I checked both machines (local and linuxserver)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>     1. which xsetroot, xrdb  and found all these commands are present. Nothing missing!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>     2.  Instead of doing the -f and the command (gnome-session)  I just did the</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>          ssh -Y <A href="mailto:root@linuxserver">root@linuxserver</A> .  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>    3. I got through, then typed gnome-session after I got a prompt.  I then got my desktop...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>        BUT..  every window has the Microsoft Window border.  So my desktop has the MS border,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>        and each other application did too like the gnome panel, xterms, and my applications</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>        each got their own MS border... And consequently have their icons at the </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>        MS task bar tray as a running application.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>        Q:  How do I get this to work such that all the applications I run inside the remote desktop</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>             does NOT have these MS border windows.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>So how do I reconcile these issues?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>Thank for your time in advance.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=905085416-10022005><FONT face=Arial>-Bryon</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>