The whole point of extensions is that you're meant to query for their presence, and carry on (maybe missing some features) if they aren't there. Your remote apps would have to be pretty specialist (or oddly-written) to outright require XRandR -- are you sure that that was the only error, the reason why they wouldn't run?
Peter
Sorry for the miss-impression, all the apps I've tried have indeed run.
It's just that many generate the error in the xterm where they were invoked. Most of the old old unix programs don't, while almost everything gnomish does.
In the case of gnome-session, many of it's components each generate that error. Don't know exactly why they are looking for RandR. Maybe it's just something compiled in everywhere, needed or not.
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