I don't know your motives, but on a home LAN, ssh seems unnecessary,and possibly slows things down. On my home LAN I prefer something like the following, rather than vnc:
Just good old fashioned paranioa :-)
As for default KDE or GNOME? $>ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager and # update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
Thanks, it worked like a charm. -Roberto _________________________________________________________________