Hi,

I'm very late to answer in this thread and i must admit that I didn't
read every post so far. But it seems to me everything goes the wrong
way...

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:55:13 -0800
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm now logged on successfully to a remote machine. I can run X apps
> and display them here successfully. Let's say that I wanted to run
> Gnome on the machine at the other end but see it displayed here on
> display #2. How can I do that? If I do the same startx -- :2 it
> creates a second display at the far end. I'd like to pipe that to a
> second display here but I haven't grasped how to do that.
> 
>    I know it will be slow but there are reasons I need to use it
> occasionally. I figure it won't be any worse (I hope) than running
> tight-vnc.

Well, it's exactly the same. What you're searching for seems to be "Xnest".
Starting it would look like this:

remote$  xinit /usr/bin/pekwm -- /usr/bin/Xnest -geometry 640x480 -nolisten tcp

replace /usr/bin/pekwm by your actual window manager (or leave it out
to go the "normal" way that's configured for your remote user).

By the way: having X listen on TCP is *not* necessary to use SSH's X
forwarding. Your problems with SSH tunneling are related to Xauth, i
think, but hopefully that stuff above is already enough information...

HWH
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