topic Re: starx in Operating System - HP-UX

starx

Fauziah Mahdan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:11:21 GMT

HI all,
My app vendor able to use the display only when we run starx command from the app server.
When the server becomes prod server we are require to logout from the server. So how can it be done?

Re: starx

Yogeeraj_1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:56:46 GMT

hi,

Please clarify. Do you need a headless-display? Something like XVFB (Virtual Frame Buffer X Server)...

revert

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: starx

Fauziah Mahdan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:16:05 GMT

I am not sure what I want. It is require by application vendor to display their application, something like xserver service which is start without require login and run the command starx or require to launch reflection x to enable the display.
Is it something to do with vncserver?

Re: starx

PeterWolfe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:53:00 GMT

> I am not sure what I want.

From your description, it sounds like
you have a server application that
has a hard dependency on an X server.
IOW, it expects a DISPLAY to be
defined and needs to connect to that
display even when there are no
users using its graphical interface?

>Is it something to do with vncserver?

So yes it could. You need to have an Xserver
available with the proper access controls
so this app can display to it.

So there are a few ways to do that:

- as yogeeraj, use Xvfb (virtual framebuffer X server)
You set the app's DISPLAY to this X server.

- Use Reflection X (or any PC X server) or any
X server on a remote system. This works
but is a gross hack. It assumes this remote system
is always available....

- Use VNC. This is really the same solution as Xvfb.
VNC is another implementation of an X server
and it allows you to 'remote' the X display
using it's own protocol and clients.