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 Akemi