On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:59:52AM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 03:11am, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > > I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given > > machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X > > doesn't want to configure itself on a "virtual private server" that > > has NO PHYSICAL VIDEO CARD, or so it seems to me at present. > > yes, if you want to log in remotely to X, X must be present VNC is > designed for this purpose. VNC will run a virtual X server and allow you > to connect to it remotely.
The other alternative is XDMCP, which is designed for this sort of thing. This may be of some use: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ > Liam --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110626170259.ga6...@anthropohedron.net
