Remotely using KDE

[Donn]

> 2. I want to log in to computer B (over ssh) and start KDE so that it
> appears on another display on computer A
You are opening a can of stinky worms my friend :)

The answer is X11 forwarding. But here's the rub, I have not in two years got 
KDE to run that way once. I once got it to appear, but it just crashes. Now 
Gnome is fine. Other WMs like Fluxbox also work well.

I have an ssh connection between my Kubuntu desktop and my Windows Xp Home 
laptop (the horror) and I use an app call Xming (I hope so, this is from 
memory) on the Windows end. I have also use Cygwin on that end in the past - 
works well too.

In broad strokes: you connect from the other machine to your main one via ssh 
with the ssh -X flag.
ssh -X donn at somePC.

Then you have to change the DISPLAY env var.
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0; export DISPLAY

Then you run stuff:
startkde

That's from my head, so I'm sure there'll be issues, but it's about like that.

HTH
\d