On 01/28/2016 09:40 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 03:24:48AM -0500, ken wrote: >> It's been surprisingly difficult to set up a remote display between two >> CentOS boxes, one headless running v.5.9 and the other a new laptop running >> v.7.2. Since the one machine is headless, it should be obvious which is to >> display the desktop of the other. > > Maybe you should be more clear as to what you mean by 'remote > display'? When someone is sitting at their linux machine which is running gnome, and if that machine is running at 'init 5', and if they aren't yet logged in, they'll have something on their screen called the Greeter. If they successfully log in they'll have displayed on their monitor a 'gnome desktop'. If they've logged in before, normally gnome (or more properly 'gdm') will display those apps which were open that last time (at the time they logged out from gnome). By 'remote display' I mean that all of that, beginning with the Greeter, can be seen and used, it functions, not on the machine which one is sitting at, at that moment called the local machine, but another machine, a remote machine. > > Running 'ssh -X servername' will give you the ability to run remote X > apps on your local system, so if that's all you want, you're done. > Nope.