[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 16:42:30 UTC 2010
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
You need to be somewhat careful these days about things that came from
centos-testing or extras as some now also appear in epel with the same names and
version number that aren't likely to be coordinated. I haven't seen anything
actually break from this yet but have been surprised to see things originally
installed from CentOS updating from EPEL.
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Les Mikesell
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