| Hi XFree86 list, tl;dr - Please can someone give me advice on running XFree86 as an unprivileged (non-root) user? OpenShift (http://www.openshift.com) is a service from Red Hat that gives you a completely free server with SSH and SFTP access. Unlike Amazon's "free for 12 months" model, this is free forever, and I've used it flawlessly since 2011. It's also not blocked in China. I can run command-line tools, Bash scripts, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, you name it. The problem with OpenShift is that I don't have root access to the virtual machine. So everything has to happen through my user folder. I can export my path, but I basically have to compile each program I want from source. X11VNC is an X server and a VNC server in one. I've successfully compiled it, set up port forwarding, and tried to connect to the virtual machine. http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/It connects! But then Xvfb gives an error: http://pastebin.com/RVNcVYvq If I run Xvfb independently, it gives a bit more information: http://pastebin.com/9rdf7tFdI installed Xfsrv from http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.8.0/binaries/Linux-x86_64-glibc23/ but that gives me another error "xfs: symbol lookup error: xfs: undefined symbol: _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners"I'm on the brink of having a GUI-capable cloud computer for free. Is it possible to modify XFree86 to use different directories instead of /tmp and /usr? If so, I think this is possible. Thank you! Peter |
