Start X on server via SSH

Question

I have an Arch Linux system which does not start X on boot. I want to initiate Xorg on the server itself and do not want X over SSH

Answer 1

Usually the way to do this is the command 'startx'

You may wish to make SSH not allocate a TTY so you can exit the SSH session

Something like

ssh  -nqxT hostname "startx -- vt7 < /dev/null > /path/to/logfile.log 2>&1"

You may run into trouble with your user not being allowed to start the display unless they are logged into a console, and will likely need to configure the system in other ways to allow that, possibly in the 'pam' configuration, or possibly /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config