I would have expected that to work, or something close to it anyway then you would find the console on Ctrl Alt F8 your normal console on Ctrl Alt F7 and your text consoles on Ctrl Atl F1 - F6 It should even work in a different resolution. On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 09:56, Carl Parrish wrote: > Okay I'm trying to advoid having to get new KVM swith. Is it possible to > have a remote window manager running on a Different desktop / screen? > Well okay I guess the real question is can I get tht window managers > running. As long as I'm not running a window manager on my local box I > can get the remost one to send its display to me. But I have no idea how > to get it to the local box but on another screen. > > I guess I'm trying something like > gnome -display localbox:1.1 > > But I'm guessing. (and that didn't seem to work). -- David IS Mandala gpg fingerprint 8932 E7EF CCF5 1B8C 1B5C A92E C678 795E 45B2 D952 Phoenix, AZ (480) 460-7546 HP, (602) 321-8277 CP http://www.them.com/~davidm/