How (or can) I ---

[Mike Rambo]

Mike Rambo wrote:
> 
> Adam McDougall wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Yes and no. Yes I think it is waiting for me to place the app's window
> and no it isn't twm. This machine is a RedHat 6.2 box running
> Gnome/Enlightenment. On the stock system I also have twm and sawmill
> available so I'll give those a try. Seems like I tried at least sawmill
> in the past and ended up with Gnome complaining about compatibility or
> something though.

Hold on - I take that back. When I log into the GUI I have
Gnome/Enlightenment. Xvnc OTOH is indeed using twm to set up the X
session. I don't know how to change this. Does anyone out there?


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Mike Rambo
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