Annoying GUI Pop-up in VNC and how to disable it?

# ls -l /etc/xdg/autostart/gpk-update-icon.desktop

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7115 Feb 16 16:04 /etc/xdg/autostart/gpk-update-icon.desktop

Append below line in above mentioned file:

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

Once done, restart server and the pop-up shown above should be gone.

How to disable Screensaver in GNOME/Solaris?

This is done per user basis. This means that every user on the system will have to do this in order to disable screensaver on Solaris - GNome.

From command line (terminal), launch:

#/usr/openwin/bin/xscreensaver-demo --crapplet

If you are more GUI person, then do the following:

Launch - > Preferences - > Desktop Preferences - > Display - > Screen saver -> Then select the mode “Disable Screen SAVER”

Then do the needful as shown in picture below. :)

How to make life simple with Gnome launcher?

I was looking for a solution to launch a GUI application from other server. For example, to launch jnbSA (java interface for netbackup) from other server which runs Gnome. In GNOME, the configuration of these things are very simple and takes hardly 4-5 steps.

Here is what I did to setup a launcher for jnbSA on another server running gnome:

1) Setup the password less ssh authentication first so that it will be easy. (though it is not required but good to have)
2) Login to the server which runs GUI/Gnome.
3) In desktop, rightclick and select "Create Launcher"



4) In the Create Launcher window, fill the necessary fields. Note that command field should use "ssh -X" (this is to enable X11 forwarding).



5) In place of jnbSA, one may launch xterm, xclock, DBCA (for DBAs) etc...

If the passwordless ssh is already setup, then there is NO NEED to select "Run in terminal" option in create launcher window.



Voila! The launcher is ready to go!