[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network

Sun Jul 25 16:24:24 UTC 2010
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 19:14, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> 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. :-)
>
> Please follow the instructions here:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
>

Thanks for the suggestion, I will give it a try. I have heard of
FreeNX, but never used it.

Have a great week!


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