Re: xwin-32, debian, and colliging window managers
Hi Rick,
try Debian vnc package. It allows you to view the "Linux Desktop" into Netscape 4 withing Windows.
More info into Debian homepage in session News.
Have a nice day, Paulo Henrique
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:33:32PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> Life isn't fair. I buy a machine to install debian and run lyx. I get
> my boss to buy a debian box for his number-smasher. And I'm spending
> my time fighting with nt problems :(
>
>
> The latest is his effort to have only one display on his desk. As he's
> wedded to word, that means NT display with xwin-32.
>
> It connects just fine to our digital unix boxes, but attaching to
> debian, the window managers collide--whatever it's running and the
> default manager on the debian box.
>
> I can manually set DISPLAY and use "xauth add $DISPLAY <cookie>" in a
> telnet application, and launch apps. But i've tried replacing the fvwm
> line in .xsession/.xinitrc with xterm, with removing the files, and
> general tinkering, and whatever I do, I still find a
>
> [FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "pc21307.ansci.iastate.edu:0.0"
> after 25 requests (24 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
>
>
> in .xsession-errors
>
> What do i need to do to configure this? preferably in a manner that
> still allows logins from it's own display
>
> rick
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