How to use X without installing X?

[Pietralla, Siegfried P]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Morse
> Sent: Friday, 14 January 2005 07:37
> To: Daniel S. Haischt
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: How to use X without installing X?
> 
> 
> On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:15 PM, Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
> 
> > simply try to export/set the DISPLAY variable before
> > installing any additional software.
> >
> > setenv DISPLAY foo.bar.com:0.0
> >                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >                        |
> > Your actual X-Server -´
> 
> Hi!  I tried this (I had to use xhost first on my local machine), and 
> it sort of works.  I get a lot of errors about fonts, and the Oracle 
> installer keeps throwing various java exceptions and not doing 
> anything, but I don't know if that's because of problems with the 
> installer or the X connection.  The font errors I get are:
> 
> 	Font specified in font.properties not found 
> [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
> 
> if you have any idea what I'm missing that would solve this...
> 
> Thanks muchly,
> Ricky


hi ricky,

this is the way to go - you definitely don't need anything X related on the
server - I've just done this recently ( albeit with hpux and reflection X ).
the install notes should tell you what version of java you need and that
should help you fix up those errors. the font thing I can't help you with -
perhaps you just need to install a font with those properties? or make sure
all your fonts are on the right path / list / whatever ?

also, you could just use another X server - do you have a different working
unix workstation ( sgi, sun, hp, etc )? or even a p.c. running reflection X
or exceed. but note that I can't get cygwin to work for me - I only get
about a quarter of the initial installer screen to show up so I have to kill
it - although it's still worth a quick try if you have a windows box.

hth,
siegfried.