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How to setup remote xwindows for linux

Posted 09-09-2008 at 09:17 AM by setuld

Hope this helps others.

Setting up remote xwindows on linux red hat to use on windows

/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1 -ac -screen 0 800x600x16 &
export DISPLAY=:1.0
/usr/X11R6/bin/mwm &
xhost +

the last command will disable security so be sure you know that nobody else will access the server, otherwise anybody will be able to access the remote interface

You will require an ssh client to forward x11 packets and you will...
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