Alan,
When I had to change some settings for a friend, I used the VNC stuff.
That seemed to make it easy.
It strikes me that Sonia could also start a "real Gnome session" like this:
% ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[enter passwords etc]
remote_machine % gnome-session &
The only thing that I've noticed with this setup is that it can actually
hijack your current session.
VNC would probably be the easiest, though.
DSL
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