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quick question for the X11 geniuses:

i use VNC to admin a remote linux box that has KDE as the desktop environment. VNC by nature is a little sluggish, even on a local network. sure, i could use ssh to compress it, but then it's only slightly sluggish but choppy.

it occured to me a few minutes ago that i can use ssh to forward X winodws to my local X server. (ssh -X username@remote_machine) this is handy for running apps like gaim, rythymbox, etc but those are all apps that run inside the mac desktop environment, albeit as X-windows.

i tried running kde from with xterm, and it actually worked, but not quite how i expected: it ran alongside OS X and the other aqua elements. this makes sense, as kde is really just an application after all. this leads me to my question:

is there a way to run some kind of container window for x apps? a container window such that all of my x-windows apps are imprisoned? this way, KDE could take over this whole container window, and all of the x apps could run inside of it.

does that make any sense? if not, then nevermind.