re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

[terry]

Another minor quibble (which may be off-topic here):
In contrast to what the Xfree user's guide says I have to set
the DISPLAY variable manually after connecting to the linux
machine via ssh. I would have expected ssh to do that for me.
Also I have to do xhost + before calling ssh, is that not
also supposed to be done by ssh?
Can't help with the KDE problem, but I've just started using Cygwin and 
have seen the above problem.  Actually, the DISPLAY setting was NOT a 
problem for me and I was wondering why so I looked into it and found out 
that it was being set in ~.bashrc (on the machine being logged into) by 
the code below:

#
# Smart way of setting the DISPLAY variable (from Hans) :)
#
if test -z "$DISPLAY" -a "$TERM" = "xterm" -a -x /usr/bin/who ; then
    WHOAMI="`/usr/bin/who am i`"
    _DISPLAY="`expr "$WHOAMI" : '.*(\([^\.][^\.]*\).*)'`:0.0"
    if [ "${_DISPLAY}" != ":0:0.0" -a "${_DISPLAY}" != " :0.0" \
         -a "${_DISPLAY}" != ":0.0" ]; then
        export DISPLAY="${_DISPLAY}";
    fi
    unset WHOAMI _DISPLAY
fi
My distro is SuSE, and Hans sounds Germanic - so maybe this is not in 
Debian.  It does work however - setting DISPLAY correctly from local 
login or from a couple of remote logins.

HTH,

terry