Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
Hello Stuart, On 06/25/2015 11:51 PM, Stuart Barkley wrote: For (ssh based) X forwarding no X server needs to run on the server. I usually install the xorg-x11-xauth (necessary) and xterm (optional) rpms on all my servers in case X forwarding becomes necessary. Then from your desktop

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2015 05:04 AM, mark wrote: You misunderstand me: I understand the terminology, and why they chose it. I simply disagree with their choice, and have always found it confusing, esp. to anyone coming into it since, um, the mid/late 80's, when *everything* else in the world used the

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2015 12:16 AM, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: Do not use that because any user logged on the server can connect to your X server display and snoop what you are doing, open windows etc. -Y disables all the X server authentication mechanisms

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread mark
On 06/25/15 18:02, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:41 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in X terminology, it's the client?* * Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but... You should think of it this way: the program that

[CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread m . roth
I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg, common]. I assume I need to run X, but I don't see running this in

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 at 15:55 -, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg,

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 06/25/15 15:55, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg, common]. I assume I

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:41 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in X terminology, it's the client?* * Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but... You should think of it this way: the program that wants something drawn on the screen is a