[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network

Sun Jul 25 15:37:12 UTC 2010
Christoph Maser <cmaser at gmx.de>

Am 25.07.2010 17:15, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> Note that my goal is to start
> X, then ssh in and run Firefox remotely from a Fedora desktop. The
> server itself has no monitor.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>    

For that you do not need an X server on the remote machine all you need 
is X11 Forwarding in SSH. It needs to be enabled on the SSH Server 
(X11Forwarding option) and on the SSH client (command line options -Y or -X)

You only need to run an X server on the remote machine if you want to do 
XDMCP

+C