On 06/25/15 15:55, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg, common]. I assume I need to run X, but I don't see running this in runlevel 5.
Thoughts?
mark "and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in X terminology, it's the client?"*
- Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but...
The easiest way to think of this is that the host on which you are going to watch the output needs a running X server, the source just needs the client application. Of course this also presumes that network and permissions are all in place.
The test that I've always used is to run a simple xclient on the remote host, xclock, xeyes, xterminal and see if it show up, if it does you are good to go.
Pete