Laptop networked to desktop.

Desktop nice big display and non-buggy X.

How I run the X client in the laptop, and the laptop's window manager and gimp and so on, on the desktop's nice big display with the desktop's X server? Used to do similar, forgotten how.

Great thanks any help.

Have you got the client and server mixed up? the local device you are infront of is the server with X, and the application is the client process. If you want to run apps remotely then just use X forwarding (over ssh is generally simplest, although you can easily also manually export the session remotely.) The WM is a little trickier, not sure why you care about that one really, but if you start an X server locally with nothing on it, then you should be able to hook gnome or whatever onto that session from across the network.

Great thanks.

I meant the desktop it plugged into the nice big monitor I want to use. So this presumably necesitates using the X server on the desktop - because it's the one plugged into the nice monitor.

The laptop has its own little display obviously, this is seriously buggy (lenny testing) and generally unpleasant.

So how do I run something in X on the nice desktop's display that reponds to the keyboard and mouse of the laptop? Is the question. Any chance of spelling it out?? An example would be being able to type stuff into a terminal emulator in the X display using the laptop's keys.

hmm, ok so it's the keyboard and mouse on the laptop and the monitor on the desktop? if so that's more complex, as the X server conventionally owns all of those things. I think you'd need something like http://x2x.dottedmag.net/ to achieve that.

Is it the X server or the X client this unit asks itself? Anyway I'll stop driving you mad. Thanks.