<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@leeming-consulting.com">david@leeming-consulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry if this subject has been covered before...<br>
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Can I install a GUI to the XS so that I can run a browser to log onto the subscriber gateway that we are using here in Nauru? What do people recommend? Or can the eth0 interface config file be set up to authenticate?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>I tried both XFCE and Gnome on older XS 0.5 test boxes to see what would happen and it did indeed work. In particular, Firefox runs under XFCE just fine. I can't remember the exact process, as it was awhile ago, but it seems like it was:<br>
<br>yum groupinstall "X Window System"<br>yum groupinstall "XFCE"<br><br>Both of those took forever! I can't remember exactly how much space that all took, but it was hundreds of MBs. Then I backed up /etc/X11/xorg.conf and did<br>
<br>system-config-display<br><br>I believe I rebooted after that. Then I installed firefox, dropped down to a regular user, and did<br><br>start xfce4<br><br>If you don't have a monitor attached to the XS, you can ssh in with the -X option, which allows X forwarding.<br>
<br>I have not tried this in a "real" production environment, nor on the most current XS version, so I'd recommend testing it on your dev box first, if you have one. At the pilot school, I simply connected an XO to the DSL modem/router, opened Firefox, and did my config chores from there - completely bypassing the XS. I have no idea if that would work with your subscriber gateway setup, though.<br>
<br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham<br><br><br>