On Sunday 27 March 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > What I actually want to do is start Gnome on the remote box and see > the whole Gnome desktop on my local box's second display. I do not > want to upset the locally running window manager. Any ideas on how I > do that?
I think you might find nx interesting. You need to install nxserver (freenx) on the remote box, and a client on the local box. There is an howto at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nx-guide.xml If you don't need to startx but connecting to a running session is enough, you could also install one of the many vnc servers available (x11vnc, xf4vnc) on the remote box, and display the remote desktop on the local machine. As another solution (untested and don't know whether it works), you might try to redirect the remote DISPLAY variable to the local box (with ssh -X, port forwarding or the other usual ways), and then try running something like gnome-session on the remote box, and see if the whole session comes up and is displayed on the local box (with startkde this kind of works, but is awkward). Even if this work, IMHO nx is far cleaner and more efficient. HTH -- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93 -- [email protected] mailing list
