Gray screen revived! + tcpserver question

[Doug Kerfoot]

Thanks CBee,

I have it running now.  I appreciate your suggestions!

>On some unix machines you can have success with `vncserver -query
>localhost`. This starts vncserver with a fresh login screen.

I did this and got it working minutes later, though I don't know if the
two things are related.  I accidently clicked and held my left mouse on
the gray screen and up popped a menu!  Is that normal in Linux?  I
stumbled into it completely on accident.  It allows me to start any of
the items from teh KDE start menu.

I am wading through the archives for more info specific to KDE.  I
appreciate you giving me a time frame - "since February" - as the 97 MB
full archive is a little unwieldy.

>If you have the guts, you can try to setup like
>http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp 
>however it is somehow for experienced unix/linux users (actually real
sysadmins).

I ain't skeered.  :)  I had actually already tried that.  I am a Linux
newbie but have done a fair amount of scripting in JavaScript, ASP, etc
and used to be pretty proficient with DOS bat files. So I'm not afraid
to jump in and try, especially since I have a fresh install with no
meaningful data yet!  

Here is the problem I encountered though.  I don't have an inetd.conf
file anywhere on my machine, nor could I find inet anything as an
installation option.  I did find and install xinetd though.  

So, how does one go about getting inetd? I read something about
Mandrake using tcpserver as an inetd replacement.  Anyone know anything
about that?  Is there a way to get the sourcecodecorner article to work
with tcpserver?

Thanks!

-Doug



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