Re: gnome over a network

["Thomas R . Shannon" <tshanno orion it luc edu>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:21:02 Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Warren Young wrote:
> 
> > I get this message in a very simple way: run a typical X server on my
> > Windows box, and, via a telnet session with the DISPLAY variable set
> > back to the Windows box, try and run, say, gnomecc.  
> > 
> > CORBA is remotable: it should talk to the CORBA server back on the Linux
> > box, not try to find it on my Windows box.  Looking for root window
> > properties won't work, since I'm not running a full login session, much
> > less a full GNOME login session.
> 
> Looking for root window properties will work fine - they have nothing to
> do with a login session. As long as you have a valid $DISPLAY, and either
> gnome-name-service running somewhere or on $PATH local to the application,
> things should "just work".
> 
> If you are running a gnome session locally, and run a CORBA-using GNOME
> app via ssh on a remote machine without direct network connectivity, there
> will be problems.

OK, that's what I've been doing and you're right, it doesn't work.  Now 
riddle me this.  If I'm not running a GNOME session on the local 
machine, I can run a GNOME program (usually panel) from the remote 
machine through a telnet session with the $DISPLAY set with no errors.  
Now all GNOME programs on _both_ machines work fine, including 
drag'n'drop between programs started on the remote machine and those 
started on the local machine. 

I'm so confused.

Tom
Tom