On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:29 -0500, vitamin wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > ...which is exactly why I suggested using it. VNC starts up and closes > > down fast and doesn't block your ssh session. > > So how will he run a VNC on non-existing X server? > VNC doesn't need an X-server: - Xvnc (the program launched by the vncserver script) publishes an X server interface for use by the application and provides a private VNC service interface for accepting connections as well as an HTTP server interface for the vnc applet. - vncviewer comes in an X-aware versions (you run that on *nix hosts) and a Windows version. Probably there are others too. - there's also a Java applet that runs in any Java-enabled web browser that can be used in place of vncviewer. In short, you can use VNC to run X-applications on a headless server. That's what it was designed to do. Martin
