[WBEL-users] Here's an Idiot Question about KDE Desktop Sharing

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 02:42 -0800, bishop wrote:
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 00:22 -0800, bishop wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>----
> >>>on FC-3
> >>># rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/apps/krdc
> >>>kdenetwork-3.3.1-1
> >>
> >>[root at fishy /]# rpm -qf /etc/issue ; rpm -q kdenetwork
> >>whitebox-release-3.0-6_i386
> >>kdenetwork-3.1.3-1.5
> >>
> >>It's in there.  Like I said, it is installed.  The menu looks a bit 
> >>different between FC1 and WB, but I'm expecting that, as I - without 
> >>looking - suspect that FC1, where I saw the DTop sharing, was a newer 
> >>copy than WBEL, which is RHEL, which is based on RH9.
> >>
> >>
> >>>can't find any instances of kde-network from RHEL or dag's repository
> >>>for RHEL
> >>>
> >>>it's a clue anyway.
> >>
> >>yep yep.  I can taste it.  Thanks for the idea.
> > 
> > ----
> > did you try running krdc from command line? It's possible that it didn't
> > get installed in menu but is installed on computer
> > 
> > # which krdc
> > /usr/bin/krdc
> > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> > [root at lin-workstation ~]# krdc &
> > 
> > et viola
> 
> Okay, that's a great idea for the hacker crowd.  This thing has to work 
> every time the wife's automatically logged in, so I can see what she's 
> talking about when I'm at work and she's at home asking about some OO thing.
> 
> No, really, in FC1 it was like a control panel setting.  Myth came up, 
> the vnc server (the one INSIDE kde;  not the xinetd one that spawned a 
> peer session) started too.  It is gorgeous when it goes, and it's gotta 
> be goin' in WB too.
> 
> Hey, I'm at least emboldened by the fact that the X experts can't find 
> it so easy either...
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I'm sorry, I thought that if I gave you the idea that you would figure
out how to implement it - apparently not.

If 'which krdc' returns a value like it does for me above...and I can
launch it by 'krdc &' then all you need to do is to create a launcher...

Right click in panel - Create Launcher - Give it a label, put in the
path and give it an icon. Seems simple enough for wife - perhaps husband
isn't up to task.

emboldened by X experts that can't find it so easy?  Why would an "X
expert" spend time on this when the solution seemed so obvious?

Craig