>> Or you could just use VNC, which works on both platforms...
>
> Why would I care about the thing working both ways, if my primary
> machine is the Windows machine?
>
> That aside, using VNC would of course have required me knowing of that
> animal (which I didn't); X was a thing I knew would do the job I wanted
> (provided I could find a free X server for Windows, which I did), so
> obviously that's what I went for. (And as it runs fine now, there's also
> no motivation for me to even try anything different.)
>
> Plus, X11 is still at the core of all the fancy Linux GUIs anyway
> (whether it is KDE or Gnome or whatever), and is /designed/ for remote
> desktop sessions, so why bother to add yet another layer of complexity
> to get a feature that's already there.

As far as I know, getting X to actually work remotely is extremely 
difficult, whereas I know from experience that getting VNC to work 
remotely is trivial.

On the other hand, if you have something that works, then there isn't 
really a problem to solve.

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