[CentOS] minimal X applications needed to export to remote server?

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Sat Aug 17 13:31:46 UTC 2013


On Fri, August 16, 2013 12:07, Joseph Spenner wrote:

>   Thanks for the tip!   xorg-x11-xauth got me closer!  The xlogo
> does show up!
> However, when I run 'bat', I get the gui with a bunch of little
> squares instead of fonts/text:
>
> http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/7935/62gh.png
>
> So, looks like I need some font stuff!   Is there a package/RPM to
> get all those?
>
> Thanks for the help.  This is great!
>
> Regards,
> Joseph Spenner
>

I find that I need these additional packages to run gui X-windows apps
from remote systems.

yum install xorg-x11-xauth dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch


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