Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2324 mails)

[Dave Cotton <dcotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:57 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:47 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > > Maybe I didn't understand something, but if you don't need a graphical GUI 
> > > then you don't need to install KDE or anything alike, I (personal opinion) 
> > > would even recommend not to install it at all (or now deinstall it). Then 
> > > your runlevel "problem" will not even appear.
> > If you install the GUI stuff, you can log in remotely and run the GUI on
> > a remote system (e.g., via vnc). Otherwise you cannot. Installing it
> > leaves the option open.
>
> And costs absolutely nothing.  You do not even need to run X;  just ssh
> -X {servername} and you can run the GUI utilities to your local display.
> X is awesome.

I have also installed freeNX on headless machines and then can use the
NX client on any machine even a Windows client to get a full working
login from anywhere connected to the internet.

DC