Chris Jones wrote: > > As you found out, you cannot start another window manager on display > that already has one running. The options you have, as far as I see are. > > 1. Just log in via ssh and run the commands you want by hand. All the > "standard Gnome session/desktop" menu items you refer to are available > at the command line, as gnome-XXX (type gnome- and hit tab). > > 2. If you really want the gui (why ???) Use some other technology to > allow you to have another X session running. I.e use a VNC session, NX etc. I thought it would come down to that. Thanks for confirming it. (1) works for almost everything. Creatign new icons and putting them on to a user's taskbar, however, is more tricky that way :-) I'm working on FreeNX but I'm having authorisation problems when it goes for the 'pubkey' authorisation. Jonathan
