Starting GUI (KDE) via SSH

The other day I used SSH to log into a remote (local on the lan) computer as
user (not root) and wound up at the command line. This box normally boots
to the KDE login screen and was setting there waiting for a login.

I wanted to make changes to the properties of an Icon on user's desktop. I
issued "startx" and it failed. I think Linux only likes one GUI (KDE)
running at a time. If true, the failure makes sense.

Is there a way around this.

thnx,

George Wayne Gambill ... Registered Linux User: #311028