X questions

2000-03-10 Thread Morse
I am getting use to Gnome and have a few problems / questions. this is a new 6.1 install and I am always logging in as root. On Gnome Desktop I have lost the 4 screen / desktop selector icon that was on the bottom Start bar...how do I get it back. For some reason all my windows open in the top

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On May 15, 10:07pm, Tony Wells wrote: > > Lastly, > Having just finished writing my POP3/SMTP proxy for 32bit windows > I'l looking for a new project, and wonder whether I might enter > into this strange world of x-windows. There doesn't seem to be > *anything* in the way of GNU-type-license X-win

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-15 Thread Tony Wells
Hi Chris, >Where are you running the xterm? The reason I ask is that (a) the standard >RedHat 5 xterm client does not understand "0.0" (although it understands >":0.0") and (b) on most modern Linux systems, when you telnet into them, the >DISPLAY variable is *automatically* set for you, you proba

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On May 15, 7:27am, Tony Wells wrote: > > Everying thig you wrote Chris makes perfect sensce, except for > one thing which throws me off beam and caused my original > question. The problem is this: For the freeware products like > TNTlite, I have to use telnet to initiate the session by setting

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-15 Thread Tony Wells
>Thus to connect to screen 0 of display 0 on host foo.com, set DISPLAY to: > > foo.com:0.0 Ahh, the mist is clearing . Everying thig you wrote Chris makes perfect sensce, except for one thing which throws me off beam and caused my original question. The problem is this: For the freeware produ

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Michael Jinks
Thanks to all for the comments. Just having the real layout of the X's client/server architecture did wonders for clearing the scales from my eyes. It seems that the short answer to my specific situation is, sure, I should be able to run the dotfile generator on my non-X-bearing firewall with li

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Chris Tyler
'Scuse my jumping in and adding another $0.02 to the various comments so far... > > All of this is confusing at first, since it isn't really like the > client-server models for just about everything else (http, ftp, > etc.). Actually, it is the same, but you have to think through the reasoning

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Tony Wells
Kevin Mernick wrote: All of this is confusing at first, since it isn't really like the client-server models for just about everything else (http, ftp, etc.). I hope this explanation helped. If you have more questions please ask. Hmn, I'm in the queue for confusion as well, but you've' helped

RE: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Jason Scherbarth
Original Message- > From: Michael Jinks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 2:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?) > > Fred Lenk wrote: > > > If you are trying to share the X apps on your

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Kevin Mernick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Michael Jinks wrote: > Fred Lenk wrote: > > > If you are trying to share the X apps on your Linux box, the Linux is > > the X server, and the other workstations are the X clients. > > Okay, now this is something that's been confusing me. The layout you > d

basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-14 Thread Michael Jinks
Fred Lenk wrote: > If you are trying to share the X apps on your Linux box, the Linux is > the X server, and the other workstations are the X clients. Okay, now this is something that's been confusing me. The layout you describe is the way I thought it was, but others have told me that I'm wron