New one on me this
I’m using Suse 11 64 on Kde 3.5, it’s a relatively fresh install which doesn’t and never has had Kde 4 installed
Yet if I remote in to an Nx desktop it boots up into Kde 4 which is annoying as hell because I really don’t like it
Anyone know how I can get it to boot into 3.5 instead of 4?
It’d also be interesting to hear how it can be using an environment I’ve never installed
I guess no-one has any more clue than I do then 
well I guess that the client might have been developed to connect to kde 4.0(as you have this option to choose from the client) for the new package. Maybe an older nx client would have the kde 3.5. just trying to make some sense in this and I might be completely off but that’s all I can think of.
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:16:01 GMT, Ecky
<Ecky@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>New one on me this
>
>I’m using Suse 11 64 on Kde 3.5, it’s a relatively fresh install which
>doesn’t and never has had Kde 4 installed
>
>Yet if I remote in to an Nx desktop it boots up into Kde 4 which is
>annoying as hell because I really don’t like it
>
>Anyone know how I can get it to boot into 3.5 instead of 4?
>
>It’d also be interesting to hear how it can be using an environment
>I’ve never installed
So what happens when you end the remote session?
I suddenly remembered what I had to do to get nx firing up an xcfe desktop and figured the same principle should work for kde
Which it did, so I’ll post the solution in case anyone else is trying to do the same thing:
For xcfe in the nxclient session configuration screen, you need to set the desktop to Unix - Custom
Then click the Settings button and in that config screen set it to run the following command:
/usr/bin/startxcfe4
To make the client start kde 3 instead of kde 4 it’s basically the same thing except the command to use is this:
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde
If you want to have control over the session’s resolution you may also need to do this in the same screen as you enter the command:
Change Floating Point to New Virtual Desktop
Basically you can start any desktop environment you have installed by changing the Desktop setting to Custom and entering the command which starts that particular environment
Thanks to those who replied
Why not load XDM instead of one of the window managers ?
That’s how I use NX.
It shows my KDM login screen from which I select the Window manager I want to use, remote or on the machine itself, doesn’t matter, I always work the way I want.
Maybe an idea to try ?