Well 99% of the time there will be no keyboard, mouse or video attached to the server and it'll be remotely managed, rebooted etc Last time I ran X on a server the window manager kept crapping out because it couldn't see any attached devices and so X wouldn't start. I'm trying to avoid that and avoid running a graphical interface on the client that I presume will consume resources I could use for other apps. Darren -----Original Message----- From: Ted Spradley [mailto:tsprad@spradley.org] Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2002 9:05 AM To: newbie@XFree86.Org Subject: Re: [Newbie]X with NO desktop? On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:35:56 +1000 Darren Ward <darren.ward@nttaus.com.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've asked before and I'll try again. > > I want to run a X-Server on a host so that I can x-term a session with > it but want the console on the host itself to be command line only. I don't quite get what you mean. Many PeeCee-based Unix like systems (e.g., Linux, BSD, Solaris) allow multiple virtual terminals. You switch among them with a key sequence like Ctl+Alt+F1. For example, on my FreeBSD workstation, Ctl+Alt+F1 switches to the (text-only) console on ttyv0 and Ctl+Alt+F9 switches to ttyv8 which runs the X server. ttyv1 thru ttyv7 are accessible similarly, and I can run an rlogin or ssh session to different hosts on each of them, or I can run multiple xterms on the xserver, with either the xterm client on the other hosts, or the xterm running on the local host and an rlogin or ssh session running in that. I'm also running an xconsole X11 client to monitor console messages on the X server. If none of those can solve your problem you'll have to tell us more about your problem. Or are you confused about which is the server and which is the client? The server is the part that "owns" the keyboard, tube, and mouse. xterm is a client. You can certainly run clients on a host that is not running a server. You have to tell the X server to allow connections from the other host ("man xhost"), then start the client (e.g., xterm) on the other host with $DISPLAY in its environment, or a -display command-line argument that specifies the display on the X server host. Does this help? -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
