[lug] Installing XWindows

[Hugh Brown]

With JDK 1.3 and lower, install Xvfb (part of the xfree86 packages).  

Then you can run 

Xvfb :0

and set your display to localhost:0

Hugh


On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 18:39, George Sexton wrote:
> With JDK 1.4 or higher add
>  
>  
> -Djava.awt.headless=true 
>  
> to your startup. You can then make Swing graphical calls without and X
> server.
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us
>         [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Michael
>         Wegener
>         Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 3:03 PM
>         To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing
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>         Subject: [lug] Installing XWindows
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>         Hi,
>          
>         Is it possible/advisable to install x windows on a
>         console-only box? I can't seem to find any docs on this, which
>         makes me wonder it it's too painful to try. The reason I want
>         to do this invloves a long trail of tears in trying to get an
>         existing web/app server to connect to a new Oracle9i db
>         server, in which the last recourse I can think of now before
>         rebuilding the db box is to upgrade the java JDK and drivers.
>         Unfortunately, it seems that the JDK assumes you are running a
>         windows system on Linux.
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>         Thanks,
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>         --M
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>         Michael
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