On Sun 31 Jan 2016 at 21:00:40 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sun 31 Jan 2016 at 20:12:15 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> David <david.g_jo...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > >>> I am running a headless version of Wheezy on an Alix Board, all > >>> seems to be working as expected. > >> > >>> I'm trying to install TeamViewer so I can gain remote access to my > >>> network. > >> > >>> I think TeamViewer is installed, but I can't find out how to > >>> configure it. > >> > >>> Can anybody offer any help please? > >> > >> Why do you need TeamViewer on a headless system? > >> > >> TeamViewer is for sharing your current X session, but there is no > >> active X session on a headless system. > > > Not even Xvfb? Is it forbidden? Do I have to stop doing it? > > Of course. The VT100 Protection Squad is on its way to apprehend you. > Please wait patiently at your keyboard until they arrive to take to your > reeducation on the pure ways of UNIX™.
Damn! I knew I shouldn't have opened my big mouth in public. I'll plead extenuating circumstances: a machine with a 256MHz processor, 1GB of compact flash and 256MB of memory. Mercy has been shown in similar situations. > Joke aside: under normal circumstances most headless systems won't have > any Xserver running on them. True. > If you use Xvfb or Xpra or Xvncserver I guess you have a special reason > to do so. How would anyone run Skype sensibly? > Maybe David has one, too. It'd be intereting to read about it. But until > then I guess this is a sort of XY-Problem we are seeing. I purged the xy package a long time ago.
