Graphical environment without X.
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Can I use my Graphical Desktop without X ? Thank you. |
U need an X server to do UI (or something to tell the video h/w to draw something) X UI is different (from Windows) because it runs in a separate process and x clients have to use Unix sockets to communicate to it...tell it what to draw, it runs using root privilege, lightDM (ubuntu uses this) is a display manager that is an X client, it creates the log in screen (and does let u login)
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I you can get Wayland to work, maybe yes
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As I understand it things can be done with frame buffer but, as mentioned, without X a desktop isn't really viable unless a replacement is found.
This laptop does let me select Gnome on Wayland and it works -- but I use XFCE and it's not moved to Wayland yet and my desktop has an NVIDIA card so I'll not use it for a while. I've played with Rebecca Black Linux but Debian Sid works better with Wayland on this machine. |
For security reasons, someone disable X.
Wayland can work like other Desktop? |
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XWindows/XOrg is the foundation software behind any "graphic user anything." It's a non-privileged userland pair of processes: a client, and a server.
This is what allows you to, for example, connect to a remote machine (that doesn't even have a graphics card ...) and conduct a GUI session with that machine. As long as the remote is running the X server, you can connect. (And it does not use the crappy bitmap-transfer method that Windows Remote Desktop is obliged to use. The graphics are being rendered directly on your machine, by the client.) |
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When you think about it this is a bizarre request "How can I run desktop applications on a machine that somebody has disabled X on?". When you put it like that the answer is "You can't, that's why they disabled X". |
Thus, It is not True that Graphical system like Xorg can cause hacking?
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Edit: sorry, just occurred also. The admins probably want to avoid the whole "application X opens port through firewall under circumstance y under a blue moon, or causes 100 RAM usage on VM host" problem. Adding a desktop is adding more potential problems and holes. |
so this wayland.. what are its benefits over x server? why would someone switch to wayland assuming they could get a desktop environment to use it?
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