Sublime Text X11 Forward - linux headless

On a newer editors (compared with Vim or Emacs) is Sublime Text.
Has many useful features and is quite popular these days, combined with the vintage_keys enabled (vim emulation) is
quite interesting.

This post shows what I did to have sublime text 3 working on a remote headless linux server, I used CentOS 7.1 installed with the group Base.

Since sublime text needs a display to run you will need to install a few packages.

sudo yum install gtk2
sudo yum install pango
sudo yum install gtk2-devel
sudo yum install dejavu-sans-fonts # or the font of your choice
sudo yum install xorg-x11-xauth

After all these packages are installed the ssh server (sshd for CentOS) needs to have the following settings.

# /etc/ssh/sshd_config

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
TCPKeepAlive yes
X11UseLocalhost yes

Restart sshd in case you changed your config file

sudo systemctl restart sshd

I used putty on a windows box so I had to make a small hack.

cd  $HOWE
touch .Xauthority  # empty file

Windows based

Configure putty to enable X11 Forwarding and connect to your server.
One more thing to mention is that if you use Windows than you will need to install a program Xming
After you download run the installer and start the Xming server.

Linux

You will need to run a X server - doesn't matter which one and have X11 forward it into the agent.

# when connect add the -X
ssh -X my_host_with_sublime_installed
# Or you enabled X11Forward into your .ssh/config
# something like this will do
Host *
   ForwardX11 yes

In case that sublime text is not installed, download from their site (is always nice to have a license too), extract
the files, typically you would have a directory called sublime_text_3.

# check first that the display is forward it
$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
$ cd  sublime_text_3
$  ./sublime_text --wait
# 

At this point onto your local screen(display) you should see a window pop up with sublime text.