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MS1

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Registered: 2018-02-02

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How can I startx from ssh without a display manager?

I want to ssh into a machine and run "startx" so that the local monitor will run the desktop environment as if I typed "startx" from the local tty but it does not work. It does this

$ startx

/usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

Ho can I trick it into working?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: How can I startx from ssh without a display manager?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xserverrc

I suspect you could also set up (but not enable) a custom autologin service on a specific tty, and configure your .profile to autostart X on that tty.  So then when you log in via ssh, you'd just need to start the autologin service.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-06-09 12:33:01)

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