How to use Xnest and startkde or gnome-session over SSH
The idea here is to ssh to a remote box, be able to call startx or startkde or
gnome-session, and have it display back at the client in an Xnest window. Actually,
I couldn't get this to work with startx; you have to call either startkde or
gnome-session; on RH boxes, you probably want gnome-session.
- ssh to the remote host.
- run Xnest :1 -ac &
- run DISPLAY=:1 gnome-session
If you need to get root's desktop, ssh in as root; coming in as a mortal and then
using su - doesn't seem to work; you get the mortal's menu.
08/04/2004