How (or can) I ---

[Adam McDougall]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Mike Rambo wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions!
>
> Adam's suggestion has gotten me close. I have the vnc server running on
> the box in question. When I 'wine /path/to/app -display localhost:1'
> things start happening - among them an error that reads "extension
> 'XFree86-VidModeExtension' missing". The strange thing is that if I run
> the vncviewer as a different user at this point, I find that the FAIRCOM
> service I'm trying to start is waiting for a mouse click to place it on
> the screen in the X session I'm viewing. It is unclear right now whether

Sounds like vnc's window manager is simply waiting for you to place it,
maybe twm?  see if you can have it run a different window manager that
automatically places windows.