Headless Fedora?

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:52 PM +0200 6/28/07, Matej Cepl wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:11:42 -0500, Michael Hennebry scripst:
>> I'd thought that "headless" meant no monitor. Am I wrong about that?
>
>But without monitor you really don't need X (and you are managing the
>computer through ssh for example).

X Window client apps work just fine through ssh without a monitor on the
remote computer.  I often do that when managing servers when I prefer the X
Window tool (e.g, gvim vs. vim).  No X Window server is needed on the
remote computer, but the X Window client libs and fonts are useful.
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