Questions tagged [headless]
Refers to a computer system or device that has been configured to operate without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. A headless system is typically controlled via a network connection.
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use of gnome-keyring-daemon without X
I'm wondering if it is possible to use gnome-keyring-daemon without X. Normally it will present a graphical prompt in order to acquire a password for the keyring; is there a way around this? I'd ...
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How to make VM in VirtualBox start headless by default?
How to make VM in VirtualBox start headless by default? Not to press SHIFT every time to start headless...
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Run wine totally headless
I want to run wine headless and avoid the error message:
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Is there a way or do I have to route/forward it to some output? ...
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How to use headless Skype over DBUS on Debian
I installed Skype on Debian and ran it headless, however, I cannot interact with it over dbus.
Some context of what I have so far:
Installed Debian 6 on VMware fusion box from netinst CD
Skype ...
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How to turn a desktop Linux box headless
I'm sure this is a question that has been answered before, but with a number of different searches, I can't find it!
I have a computer with Linux already installed (Lubuntu 13.10), and when it boots, ...
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Is it possible to launch GUI of headless VirtualBox' machine?
After I launch a virtual machine (Ubuntu 12.04) in headless mode on Windows 7 host
C:\Users\XXX>VBoxManage startvm "ubuntu 12.04" --type headless
Waiting for VM "ubuntu 12.04" to power on...
VM ...
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How do I run vino-server without a monitor attached in Ubuntu 10.04
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 yesterday on a headless home server. I use the server for a variety of purposes, and what I don't know how to do via SSH I've alway been able to do through VNC. However,...
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Dual boot a headless machine?
I wondering whether it is possible to set up a headless machine (application server) in a dual boot configuration. The goal is to have linux (debian lenny or sid) and windows (XP pro, no use upgrading ...
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Which torrent apps work headless (from command line only)?
There's a question on here about what torrent apps work well remotely, but I'm hoping to find out one that works well through a command line interface, preferably with no GUI.
What torrent apps ...
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How to reboot headless server with passphrase?
I have an old desktop computer that I want to start using as a headless server.
With a monitor and a screen attached, I installed Ubuntu Server edition with encrypted LVM on the machine. After ...
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Virtualbox in Headless mode
I used the virtual machines in virtualbox in a "headless" mode instead of a GUI mode. what are the advantages of using it in a headless mode?? by headless does it mean that the server doesnt have a ...
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How can I boot an Ubuntu server without monitor/keybord?
I am new in servers. I have an old PC. I want to install Ubuntu Server on that PC and keep it on my home network. The problem is that I can't keep the monitor and the keyboard. So the questions are:
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NVIDIA Start Xorg Without Monitors
I'm running Redhat 6.4
uname -ra
Linux host.domain 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 29 11:47:41 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The graphics card is an NVIDA Tesla C2075, Driver Version: ...
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How to access VNC on a Linux server without having been logged in to the machine first? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically start VNC server on startup
I have a Linux server at home, and by default no-one is logged in to that box.
I'd like to establish a remote desktop connection to ...
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How To VNC Into a Headless Windows 10 Machine
I want to connect to my headless work PC from my home PC.
Before I made my work PC headless, I connected to my work PC (Windows 10 Enterprise) using my home PC (Windows 10 Home) via RDP, and that ...
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Fusion: create "headless" virtual machines?
Is there a way to run a VM in Fusion that starts when the machine does, but I can then access via Remote Desktop (Windows) or ssh (Linux) rather than by opening the Fusion app, starting the VM, and ...
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How can I start a VM in headless mode from the VirtualBox GUI?
In the release notes for VirtualBox v4.2.0 it notes one of the changes as:
GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
However, I can't seem to find how to start the VM in headless mode from ...
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Install Linux/Alternative OS on Headless Server
Question in short:
How to install an alternative OS (debian preferred) on a headless server and what OS to use for a home media/dataserver.
My questions now is:
How to do it?
The server will, in ...
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How to change LibreOffice settings without GUI
Is there a way to change Libre Office settings through command line or some configuration file?
We would want to change the measurement units from imperial to metric while converting to HTML in ...
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Minimize boot time on headless ubuntu
I am trying to remove as much processes as possible to minimize the boot time on a beaglebone running ubuntu minimal.
So i want to remove udev-fallback-graphics and all plymouth processes.
I tried '...
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Export to PDF with LibreOffice command-line, selecting an output filename
This works to export a PDF:
C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe --headless --convert-to pdf test.doc --outdir .
but it doesn't allow to change the output filename. I found the option to ...
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How to send multiple magnet links to a separate headless Linux machine?
With torrents, we could use w3m (Linux) to pass multiple torrent files to a separate machine running rtorrent. This doesn't work with magnet links. We can pass magnet links from Firefox to Azureus ...
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qBittorrent as a remote
I have installed headless qBittorrent on my server. I can access it through the web UI (localy or through internet) but it's not convegnent (e.g., when I download a torrent, it's not associated with ...
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Can you boot ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1 headless?
I have two of these computers both with ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1 motherboards. As their gaming days are behind them, I want to use them in a headless fashion given the 12 core Xeon processors.
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How to select OS via grub on headless system?
I have a dual boot system (Linux and Windows) that I normally run headless and which boots by default into Linux (which is what I use mainly). This all works fine, except that on occasions when I want ...
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Google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu gives a network error on Centos
Running google-chrome-browser latest (75) is giving me a really strange error I am unable to decipher, and I can't find anything helpful about this:
$ google-chrome --disable-gpu --headless 'http://...
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Getting sound to play from the speakers on a Headless 9.04 Ubuntu Serve
I have this Ubuntu Server running in my room and i wanted to use it as an alarm clock, so i decided to make a C++ program for it (i know i could've used cron but meh). The problem is the fact that i ...
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BIOS without Keyboard
My server is in another city and sometimes loses power. It is headless and I only use it via SSH/FTP.
I have found a way to turn it back on after the power returns, but I need to press F1 or F2 with ...
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Headless standalone firefox never returns from making a screenshot
I'm trying to make a screensot with firefox on "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"
wget -O firefox-58.0.tar.bz2 https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-58.0....
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VirtualBox headless caused high CPU load on Mac OS X
When I run a CentOS linux VM on VirtualBox in headless mode the CPU continuously spikes up to about 80% for a couple of seconds at a time with a short 1 or 2 second gap and then does it again. Even ...
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How do I make server from laptop with broken video card?
How do I install any kind of Operating System on a laptop with broken video card? I want it to run like a server. I could control it from another laptop. Is there a way to do so?
My laptop's video ...
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Where To Download Windows Server Core
I'm looking for a place to download Windows Server Core (possibly for free) for trying on a VM, to learn more about windows stuff, users, groups, services, and things like that in a headless manner.
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Run headless Google Chrome on Mac OS X on startup
I'm currently running on OS X El Capitan, and I'd like to make run Google Chrome in headless mode on startup. So far I've tried to do this via Terminal but I have been unable to find a proper way to ...
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Do I need a graphics card on a headless system?
I'm planning to make a proper server this time around and I've been digging for proper parts all over the net. However, I'm still uncertain whether or not I'll be needing a graphics card for my system ...
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Computer only boots if a monitor is plugged in
I'd like to setup a headless system, but it only seems to boot if a monitor is plugged in.
The motherboard is an Asus ROG Maximus Ranger VII, the CPU an Intel i7 4790K and it's running VoidLinux.
With ...
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Looking for a way to remote manage a completely headless system
I have an old WS that I turned into a dedicated plex transcoding server. It is running windows 7(64 bit) and has no onboard or dedicated graphics installed( to lower the power usage of an always on ...
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ESXi with non-headless VM
I'm going to receive a Xeon Server/Workstation soon and I was thinking about installing ESXi to host some server applications that I want (ex: SVN server, Web server, media server, etc). Most of ...
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VNC on headless Ubuntu server
So I've been trying for the past day to get my Ubuntu server to boot to desktop without a monitor connected to it. If it doesn't boot to the desktop, the vino server won't start. Which in result makes ...
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Linux kernel option to force video card to stay on
I just installed Debian Wheezy 7.1.0 on an Intel vPro System (Intel Core i5-2520M, SuperMicro MBD-X9SCV-Q-O). Intel AMT's KVM works perfectly until Debian has completed booting and shows the login ...
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Replace Linux Boot-Drive | ext3 to btrfs
I've got a headless server running Debian Linux currently.
Linux vault 3.2.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 03:50:34 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
The root filesystem is located on an ext3 partition on the ...
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Headless Ubuntu - How do you do it?
I would like to make my Ubuntu PC a headless file server.
How do I do that ?
Currently I have installed Ubuntu 10 LTS and it is all working fine. I installed Webmin and can login remotely and ...
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Chrome 114 segfault crash on Amazon Linux 2
I'm using AWS EC2 instances with Amazon Linux 2 (Karoo) to run test automation with Selenium WebDriver using headless Chrome.
When upgrading to Chrome 114 (stable), ChromeDriver reports that Chrome ...
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Google chrome is starting automatically --headless --disable-gpu --remote -debuging-port=9222 URL, making my computer slow
For many days I saw a weird behavior of google chrome that it automatically starts some program in the background and that utilizes more than 70% of my CPU, and some integrated GPU as well. I change ...
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Why does xserver require a physical screen?
I was searching for a solution to run a graphical application without a physical screen. The application is showing multiple hardware accelerated video streams with gstramer-vaapi.
I dont want to ...
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Linux headless and mega.nz sync
I have a server with Ubuntu 14.04 and I need to sync (real-time sync, not push-pull via cronjob) with a mega.nz account. Right now my solution was to install Mate and megasync gui app, but I want ...
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Virtualbox: normal start fails, headless/detached start runs
When I try to start my newly created virtual machine on a fresh install of Virtualbox I get the following message.
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Debain. The virtual machine '...
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fsck scheduled for reboot - ignored?
Recently my server had a power failure which obviously led to hard drive corruption:
sudo fsck -n
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
Warnung! /dev/mapper/pdc_gahfdjcb2 ist ...
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Create bootable hard drive image
I've got a file server running Linux that I want to be able to run headless and access it via ssh. I no longer have room for the monitor and keyboard and plan to put it in a closet or somewhere out of ...
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Configure Bluetooth PAN between keyboard-less/GUI-less Ubuntu server and Kubuntu laptop
I want to configure a Bluetooth PAN between an Ubuntu server and my laptop (Kubuntu). Does anyone have any pointers on how to accomplish this?
I've plugged in a USB Bluetooth dongle and I'm not sure ...
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How do I enable serial access to a computer (not from a computer)?
I have a Linux server (on Desktop hw) running Ubuntu Server (headless). Its tucked away and hard to access, once a year an update or something else create a problem where I can no longer ssh into it. ...
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