I tend to do my graphical administration remotely.

# First make sure your workstation allows X connections
# from your server
bob@workstation $ xhost <server's ip address or name>

# Then connect to your server
bob@workstation $ ssh <server>

# Tell the server where to send your X gui widgets
bob@server $ export DISPLAY="<workstation's IP or name>:0.0"

# become root
bob@server $ su

# run your gui tool
root@server # red-carpet


The red-carpet gui then displays on my workstation.
In this example, the X server daemon only needs to
be installed on the workstation, not on the server.


On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, William Lindley wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mike Starke wrote:
> > If it is a server, why have X installed?
>
> in general, is it still considered a Bad Idea to run X on a server,
> despite all the easy graphical administration tools, Kups for printers
> just to name one?
>
> "Don't run X on a server" seems a kinda mid-'90s attitude, or am I wrong?
>
> \\/
>
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