Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
- Subject: Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
- From: Daniel Baumgarten <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:57:56 -0400
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:09 PM, David McNett wrote:
On 19-Aug-2003, Daniel Baumgarten wrote:
Is it possible to get /usr/X11R6/bin/X to run before any user logs in,
possibly by making it a startup item?
I'm curious what you're hoping to accomplish with this. Care to share
your plans?
I'm hoping to set up a remote login server with X11 forwarding. I had
it working awhile ago, but noticed that if I was not logged in locally
to the server, I could not use X11 programs remotely.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III
wrote:
Your starting the wrong X server, you need to start a headless X
server.
Look at the /usr/X11R6/bin/X* files and file one that doesn't require
an active display.
There are four other other X servers that came with the package that I
know of: Xquartz, Xnest, Xprt, and Xvfb. All of them seem to require an
active display, though, except for Xprt, and Xprt seems to hang when I
try and launch it, telling me that /tmp/.X11-unix's owner should be set
to root and that it can't find a configuration file. There was no
manpage for Xprt, so I'm not quite sure how to use it, either.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Jerry Talkington wrote:
You're getting that because you are not root. root owns the display
until someone logs in, and when they do, they get a generic document
icon labeled X, which they can promptly kill.
I doubt it's possible, but is there a way to change the owner of the
display before login?
Thanks for all the input. If anything, I'm learning a lot about how X11
works.
--
Daniel Baumgarten
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