On 06/25/15 15:55, m.roth at 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 -- If money can fix it, it's not a problem. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers