Opening desktop via X Window

[Ian Puleston]

Hi,

I've just been experimenting with using the CygWin X-Window server on a
Windows PC at work to connect to my Linux PC at home. Works great, but
something funny just happened. I had been hoping to open a window with the
whole GNOME desktop, but couldn't find anything in the documentation on how
to do that, so I'd resigned myself to running individual apps in individual
X-windows. But then I tried running Nautilus. In an XTerm window I typed
"nautilus &" and a Nautilus file browser window opened up, but then a minute
or so later a 2nd X-Window opened up displaying the desktop. Psychic Linux!

So, is there a command that will run a desktop directly rather than going
via that path?

Ian