# [OmniOS-discuss] X11 application support

Marion Hakanson hakansom at ohsu.edu
Fri May 17 13:10:18 EDT 2013

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    Greetings,

    We often use X11 tunnelling over SSH connections in order to run various
    X11 applications on remote servers.  An example might be to run a web
    browser on such a server in order to access the management functions
    of an appliance in the datacenter, or maybe a vendor-supplied Java GUI
    app to manage a component, perhaps a RAID HBA.  Yes, we generally can
    find a command-line tool for accomplishing most of these tasks, but
    it's not always feasible.

    I've been looking at OmniOS for a role in our datacenter environment, and
    it looks to me like out of the box, OmniOS cannot host such applications.
    I didn't find any X client shared libraries in the IPS repo, for example.

    Before I head off to solve this problem on my own, I thought I'd ask:
    Is anyone already using OmniOS to run X11 apps in this manner (displaying
    to a remote X server), and if so, how do you accomplish it?

    Thanks and regards,

    Marion

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