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produnis

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2014-09-29

Posts: 50

how to startx on remote machine's monitor

Hi there,
I would like to startx on a remote machine, having the X session on that remote machine's display/monitor.

Background: My machines all run Arch linux, and they all dont use a graphical login manager (like GDM or KDM or such). I usually log into tty, and type in "startx" to start my XFCE4 session. While on work, I sometimes connect to my home-machine via VNC. This works nice. Sometimes, I do stuff that requires my remote machine (at home) to reboot.

If I do so, there is no way to re-connect to the machine, as my VNC-connection needs a running X session (for x11vnc in my case). So, I need a procedure to somehow connect to my freshly rebooted remote machine (to TTY1) in order to type in username, password and "startx".

Could someone please give a hint how to do that?

Last edited by produnis (2015-01-17 17:14:56)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: how to startx on remote machine's monitor

Would https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xpra work?