Re: is it possible running X on a linux server without keyboard, mouse or monitor?

YBM staggered into the Black Sun and said:
csplayer wrote:
My Debian [server] has no keyboard, mouse or monitor. But now a GUI
application needs to run on this server, as a [daemon].

If something needs X, it totally doesn't fit the classical definition of
a daemon. What is the name of the program you're running?

#apt-get install xwindow-system-core xdm
I dont know how to [set up] xorg.conf to make X run on this server.
You don't need to : just configure xdm to accept XDMCP request from
remote X servers.

Why drag xdm into this?

BTW, you don't need to run a whole desktop on this host, only one
application, right? Why don't you connect to it by ssh -X, then run
this app?

This is probably the wrong approach. When you sit at machine1 and ssh
-X to machine2, the X clients you start on machine2 have their Display
set to localhost:10, which is forwarded to machine1. If the ssh process
dies or machine2 fails, then the X clients running on machine1 will have
a cow and fall over. This is undesirable for obvious reasons. So, a
better approach might be to start Xvfb on machine1, then direct the X
client you need to use the Xvfb as its Display. Whether this will work
properly or not depends on whether the X client requires actual X input
or not. You have not made this clear--please do that.

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