On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:46:01PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-06-28 10:12 p.m., Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'd love to be able to do that! E.g. a headless machine with plenty of RAM > > and CPU power to run Mate, but located in a locked building on the other > > side of campus. > > > > What do I need to install to do that? And what are the configuration > > options?
> There's plenty of book you can find by searching on Google with the > subject "X11 architecture" or something similar. > > Simply made, > You have the server (the part the display on a screen, ex all the > xserver-xorg-*) > and > You have the client (the software that ask stuff to be displayed, ex : GIMP) > Plus you have a window manager that give a "look" to the windows example > Gnome / KDE / TWM... You also probably want a Display Manager package, configured to use XDMCP. > What will make it possible to choose where the client display is by > setting DISPLAY variable. That would be a heavily piecemeal approach, and there's a bit more to it than that. If you're trying to do this without full XDMCP sessions, an easier approach to running one-off X11 clients remotely would be X11 forwarding over ssh. Simply make sure X11 forwarding is enabled on the server's sshd_config, and then "ssh -X" from the client to the server, and run the single program(s) you want to run. (Avoid ANY proposed solution that talks about xhost. Seriously.) I still think they're looking for XDMCP sessions, though.
