Maybe I am going about this all wrong - so I am hoping someone can spot my ignorance.

I am trying to work remotely on an iBook running KDE FROM a G4 on the same LAN. I am working within my internal LAN so FW/VPN, etc is not a problem. I launch XDarwin from the G4 and it opens into WindowMaker. I then do the following (within xTerm).

ssh -X user@ibook

get logged in and I can run clockx, etc from KDE on iBook. Now I want to have the full KDE environment accessible from the G4 - as if I was using Timbuktu or VNC, etc. type experience. So I tried this from xTerm:

startkde

And strangely enough it seems to work. Tells me it won't start because another window manager is already running and then it continues to fire up and there I have my KDE desktop from the iBook layer with the WM from the XDarwin startup. Nevertheless - everything startsup and I can launch GUI, etc. Heck I was floored when I got this far!

What I am wondering though - is there anyway to get rid of the WindowMaker elements that are coexisting on the desktop with the KDE from teh iBook. Its like I have 2 window managers running at the same time. Seems a bit wasteful on the resources.

So am I even close to doing this correctly? Any tips/hints would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for those words sao. I was beginning to think I couldn't explain it.

AHunter: I'm still a bit confused about which of my suggestions you have tried. Have you tried connecting with "ssh -X" to the Linux box and then checked "echo $DISPLAY"? Because I think X11 forwarding is default for most sshd installations. (sshd is the ssh server daemon running on that Linux box).