[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 16:14:00 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> What you are trying should work without running X at the console, but you might
> like the freenx/NX client even better.  That gives you a complete remote X
> desktop with very good performance that you can disconnect and reconnect with
> everything still running.  See www.nomachine.com for the client
> (linux/windows/mac) details but you can get freenx from the epel repo.

I would also recommend NX. CentOS supplies freenx/nx, no need to go to EPEL. :-)

Please follow the instructions here:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX

Akemi



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