How do I start a blank x-server?

[Micha]

I don't think that it will work as I need both actual display output
(like I said, not a directly human viewable output, but still) and
hardware accelerated OpenGL.

Still, thanks for the idea.

On 03/03/2012 00:30, Michael Vasiliev wrote:
> Have you considered using xvfb and vnc to it, or you absolutely have to
> do it on a real display?
> 
> On 02/27/2012 09:05 PM, Micha wrote:
>>
>> For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log
>> in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. That
>> is, to just initialize the display, with not cursor or window manager,
>> to allow for creating a single full screen window for display.
>> I seem to recall that just running X as a user used to do it, up to
>> the no cursor part, leaving an empty (hetched) screen and running the
>> content of .xsession or something like that.
>> Things on modern systems seems to have changed enough with all the
>> xsession / gdm / gnome etc. that it doesn't seem to happen properly.
>>
>> Any idea how I can achieve that on a modern system (red hat enterprise
>> desktop 6 in this case).
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
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