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Subject: Re: remote x session
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Jonathan Horne skrev:
> i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to 
> another box, in a window of my currently running session.  xnest is one way 
> of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little 
> easier to configure and get going) ?
> 
> cheers,

You might want to look at WDM and Fluxbox. There are alot of other 
window managwers of course but these 2 have small overhead and run very 
nice. Read more at http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/WDM . There are 
some tips in the mailing list archive for these to get you started as well.

Greetings from Sweden
/Roger