On Sunday 27 March 2005 09:31, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 08:35, 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? > > Do you run *dm on the remote box? If so, you might want to read up on XDMCP > which can do what you want, though I don't know how to ssh-tunnel it (if > you want to do that) >
Sorry for replying to myself ... again... You could also try with Xnest instead of Xorg, which would put it in a window inside your running X session -- electronerd
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