May 2020
Beginner
261 pages
6h 32m
English
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16. Displaying CentOS 8 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)
In the previous chapter we looked at how to display the entire CentOS 8 desktop on a remote computer. While this works well if you actually need to remotely display the entire desktop, it could be considered overkill if all you want to do is display a single application. In this chapter, therefore, we will look at displaying individual applications on a remote system.
16.1 Requirements for Remotely Displaying CentOS 8 Applications
In order to run an application on one CentOS 8 system and have it display on another system there are a couple of prerequisites. First, the system on which the application is to be displayed must be running an X server. If the system is a Linux or UNIX-based ...