Hi all
I am trying to find the best way for me to work in a new environment forced upon me that involves a Windows VM and Solaris 10 LDOM. Gone are the days when I am allowed a real Solaris SPARC workstation So learning on the fly here, please forgive me. For various reasons I want to have a GUI that I can start a whole bunch of apps and preferrably disconnect from and reconnect to later, like I could with a VNC session, but VNC is frowned upon in my new world. So I have been exploring alternatives. So if I can emulate this I'd be very happy.
My current solution has Xming on the Windows VM, and uses XLaunch (Xming) to start up a fullscreen X server session that executes gnome-session to bring up my familiar JDS GUI. This works surpisingly well, and although its not perfect its does the job for me currently. My problem is when I use "Log out" from the Launch button, the gnome-session seems to close but leaves behind some traces still running, like gnome-keyring-daemon. In fact, when I close down the Xming server, it tells me there are still clients connected . Am I starting gnome-session correctly? Is there a better way to close it down? Should I start in some other way? Should I use another Virtual Window Manager (I have a FVWM package somewhere but don't know how to start it properly either). Advice appreciated!
My other thought was to use XDMCP in the hope is would let me close Xming (when the admins kick me out of my Windows VM for patching) without losing my server desktop. But I can't get it to work right. I've followed all the forum posts I can but I only get a grey screen with an X cursor. I have a feeling the Windows Firewall is blocking the incoming traffic, as it said it was blocking XMing when I first started it, but the PuTTY/SSH portion seems to work fine. I have no information on how to test if it is a Firewall issue because I am locked out of the Firewall settings. I don't know where to look for logs on my Solaris box etc and everyone just talks about Port 177 and requirements on the UNIX box no the Windows side (assuming people have rights to their own Firewall).
I look forward to some discussion.
Marty