X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome?

[Warren Head]

2007/5/1, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>:
>
> Why are you trying to start a window manager on the remote machine?
> You only need (or can have) one per session, and in this case (as in
> most cases), I would expect it to be on the machine that is running
> the X server (which seems to be your Ubuntu machine).
>
> Just log into the FreeBSD machine and run your applications; they
> will be displayed on your existing X session.
> --
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
>                 http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
>

Mmm, good point.

So, you're saying that although I can run things on my server,
I shouldn't have expected to get the RDP/VNC extra's (if you can call it
that) such as the menu(items), background, windowmanager, etcetera.

I basically expected the remote gnome to appear as a window that I could
throw fullscreen or have minimized.
Is that possible in any way?

Cheers, Warren