[Fwd: Re: how do you NFS the GNOME/KDE desktop settings to multiple PCs?]

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

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> From: seberino spawar navy mil
> To: Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>
> Subject: Re: how do you NFS the GNOME/KDE desktop settings to multiple PCs?
> Date: 31 Mar 2003 11:32:51 -0800
> 
> Ben
> 
> Someone here managed to find out KDE does not seem
> to have this problem -- only GNOME.
> 
> Sometimes you will log into GNOME and taskbar
> will be across top of screen rather than bottom,
> there will be 1 or 2 widgets with no letters
> but just an ok button and a red circle with
> horiz line thru circle in widget too.
> 
> Rebooting into KDE seems to avoid this problem.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0800, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:04, seberino spawar navy mil wrote:
> > > Ben
> > > 
> > > Thank you so much for your email.  I'm glad your setup
> > > up works.  What I mean by messed up is that after I log in
> > > from GDM/KDM, the initial desktop is a bunch of messed
> > > up widgets.  Also, the desktop is FROZEN.
> > 
> > OK. This sounds really weird. It seems unlikely that it's an NFS issue
> > if NFS appears to work otherwise.
> > 
> > GDM and KDM both should have options for a failsafe session, which
> > should just give you a terminal. From that you should be able to run
> > gnome-session, or whatever the KDE equivilent is. You might try that.
> > 
> > Again, the better your descriptions the more we can do. What do you mean
> > by "a bunch of messed up widgets"?
> > 
> > 
> > --Ben
> > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:48:51PM -0800, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 18:25, seberino spawar navy mil wrote:
> > > > > I tried to NFS a bunch of /home subdirectories
> > > > > 
> > > > > to a few PCs all with Red Hat 8.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When I log into different machines, desktop
> > > > > 
> > > > > screen is all messed up requiring me to
> > > > > 
> > > > > erase all $HOME/.kde, $HOME/.gnome*, $HOME/.gconf
> > > > > 
> > > > > to make it work again....
> > > > 
> > > > Can you describe "all messed up"? What's the behavior?
> > > > 
> > > > This should just work with no problem. I know it works here.
> > > > 
> > > > My guess is that, since this isn't just a gnome problem, there is
> > > > something more seriously wrong with your setup, but if you could
> > > > describe the symptoms, then you might get more help.
> > > > 
> > > > --Ben
> > > > 
> > > > > *How come GNOME/KDE desktop not portable and how fix?**
> > > > > 
> > > > > Chris
> > > > > 
> 
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