On 11/07/2015 12:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers,
fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have
"glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res
monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which
is a trip I don't like to make very often!
I want to force these systems to support hi-res 1680x1050 or better so
I can VNC to them from my main machine and be able to use graphic
software to operate and maintain these machines.
Right now I mostly use ssh and it can be a real pain!
Can anybody tell me how to accomplish this or point me to a "How To"
somewhere?
I am running Jessie and XFCE.
Many TIA!!
Dennis
If you absolutely must have a full X running on the machines, you can
use xvfb to create a "fake" X that doesn't actually display anywhere,
and use VNC to access it. There's also xvnc which is specifically for
use over VNC.
