Jay Cliburn wrote: > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > > And what do you type at the shell prompt to actually start the X session > > at the remote end and display it locally ? > > gnome-session That gives me all sorts of error messages and stuff at the remote end because I am runnning my normal Gnome window manager at the local end and it doesn't want to have two gnome sessions. I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine, but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part of the standard Gnome session/desktop. Any ideas ? Jonathan