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List:       kde-user
Subject:    RE: Integrating with Windows 98 based X server.
From:       "John" <deadduck () home ! com>
Date:       1999-03-29 19:31:14
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In X-WinPro there are 3 settings for server Window Mode:
  Multiple,
  Single,
  Full Screen

If you are in Multiple mode, windows is your window manager and you
can't bring up another window manager.  Try setting it to Full Screen;
this should allow it to work.  (Set it in XSettings).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Matthew
> Gabeler-Lee
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:31 PM
> To: KDE User List
> Subject: Re: Integrating with Windows 98 based X server.
>
>
> Well, I don't know about X-WinPro, but with the Windows X server I have
> tried (XWin-32), windows *is* your window manager.  Since startkde
> backgrounds everything except kwm, the X server waits for the window
> manager to exit to indicate that the X session has ended.  If kwm starts
> up, detects that another window manger is already present, it exits
> immediately, so X thinks that the user has ended their X session.  I'm
> not sure exactly how to solve this, but you might try commenting out kwm
> from startkde, and making the thing that loads last before it not load
> in the background.  I might rearrange the order of things in startkde so
> that you can choose an intelligent app for X to wait for, such as
> kpanel.
>
> Bill Williams wrote:
> >
> > If this message already has been sent once, I'm sorry.  I'm new to this
> > type of message group.
> >
> > I am looking at using X-WinPro(shareware software found at
> > http://www.labf.com/index.html ) to allow Windows 95/98 machines on our
> > network to access our linux server through X windows.  Normal
> > applications such as kvt appear just fine on the X-WinPro.  The problem
> > I have is when I attempt to use XDMCP so the kdm logon screen can be
> > used.  The logon screen appears, but after I attempt to login, the logon
> >
> > screen comes back after a few seconds.  I have attached the
> > .xsession-errors file.  Specifically, at the bottom of the file, there
> > is an entry from kwm saying it looks like there is already a window
> > manager running.  In this case, no one is logged onto the linux box
> > itself, I am the only one.

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