> > How do you run VNC if you don't have X installed on your
> > *HEADLESS* servers?  For a Java app, you *might* be able
> > to use http://www.developvnc.org/logged-in/jVNC-info.html,
> > since that is installed as an AWT replacement, but for X
> > clients, I believe that you still need to have X installed
> > to use VNC.

> Having a *HEADLESS* server doesn't equate to not having X installed.

Then we just have to clarify terms.  :-)  He used the term "headless", and
I've always heard the term used to apply to systems without X installed,
e.g.,

  "A headless server is one running in a headless Squeak;
   that is, a Squeak that does not have a connection to
   an X server." [http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu/myswiki/275

  "Zinc can be run in a simple headless server mode (i.e.
   without a graphical user interface). This allows you
   to run a Zinc server on a computer that does not have
   a graphical display - a typical UNIX server for example."
  [http://zinc.microwavepizza.co.uk/help/headless.html]

etc.

In any event, the important context is his, so we should find out what he
meant.  :-)

> In fact to run stuff, such as Java AWT rendering on *nix you must have
> some kind of X-window display buffer, maybe VFB.

I think that has changed.  There were some notes about that recently.

        --- Noel


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