Hence I usually configure my servers to start up in runlevel 3 which is the multi user environment without GUI, it’s like turning GUI off but have everything else. It’s actually pretty unnecessary for most servers to run GUI desktop, it’s just a wasting your resources, opening unnecessary ports, weakening security, risking system stability due to running something you don’t actually need. Using these in a Linux environment is the focus of this guide. Nowadays we rarely sit in front of the server or desktop we are about to manage, we do these remotely, remote control utilities have come a long way. It’s very important especially in a server environment. When you run a GUI application you actually display that through your local X server, that’s the default behavior unless you tell your system where you want to display your GUI application. Your system starts an X server in the background at the boot process when you reach runlevel 5, it is supposed to be the default on most distributions. On UNIX the graphical display is managed in the same fashion as many other common services with client-server components.
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This guide is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) and the default display manager Gnome but should be very similar to OpenSUSE or other releases. I’m still a CLI guy, barely use the GUI but nowadays more and more GUI tools added to many Linux flavors so it’s unavoidable to use them every now and then.
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#Mobaxterm remote desktop how to
In this guide I’ll explain how to manage X displays (GUI) on Linux servers, desktops in best possible way and remotely.