[ale] Silly Window Manager Trick: How can I export a control-panel widg et to start apps from a remote X-server?

[Mills.J at ems-t.com (Mills, John M.)]

ALErs -

If I use 'ssh -X' to login on a remote host (running the X-server locally),
I would like to export an application menu from the remote host back to my
local server. I would like it to work like my local menu, but start the app
remotely with its $DISPLAY routed back to me. Should be simple, right?

For that matter it could serve the same function when used locally.

This must exist, but I don't recall ever coming across one. (No: 'Xterm'
_does_not_ count.) Can anybody think of a toy like that?

TIA.

 - John Mills