> Firstly, at the login window, under the menu you should see an option for > remote login (at least on my Fedora7 box here, installed from the KDE live > CD thats the case. On the standard Fedora7 install, or a different distro > it might be label different or missing). Thought of another way ;) Switch to the console on your local machine (alt-cntrl-F1) and login. Then run > X :2 -query <remote-host> This is basically what the suggestion above does. One other nice things about this, is if you use the local host name in place of <remote-host> you basically start a second X session on your local box. ( This is effectively all that the 'switch-user' buttons in the latest KDE/gnome releases, but useful on systems which don't have this. ) Chris