Using XOrg on a FreeBSD Server

[Oliver Fromme]

Logan Moore <logan at xentac.com> wrote:
 > I've set up FreeBSD on one of my servers, and I have a nice 24" 1920x1200
 > monitor plugged into it. It seems a shame to be  wasting such a decent
 > monitor on a simple black and white terminal, so I've been contemplating
 > installing XOrg on the server to get a bit of extra functionality from the
 > terminals. I'm not thinking KDE or Gnome... just a simple window manager
 > like one of the *box's or even just straight up xdm running terminals and
 > maybe some basic GUI tools like a text editor/file manager.

I would connect the monitor to a machine where it is more
useful, i.e. a PC or workstation, and let the server run
headless.

Best regards
   Oliver

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