> What you experience is what I would expect to happen. I am not sure this > behavior can be changed. You are running the remote window manager under > your X. I don't think think it is the window manager. Logging on via ssh does not start a full session, so no window manager would have been started on the remote machine. All he did was start a single emacs process on the remote machine and export the display back to the local machines X session, where the local window manager takes care of the window. I suspect any visual differences are just due to different versions of emacs, or different emacs configurations. Chris