I suspect what you're after is Xnest. I know it comes with Slackware, it
probably comes with Debian and Redhat, too. (Usually described as 
"The experimental nested Xserver").

It allows you to bring up an X session within another X session.

Eg:

        Xnest -query remotehost :1

Cheers,

Paul.

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:03:20AM -0500, Jim Roland wrote:
> Is there any such thing as an X windows version of a telnet session?
> Basically, I'd like to be able to get an X windows session via remote just
> like one would get a shell prompt (and run programs like pine).  Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> 

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