How to run X without a monitor?

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nrv2017-10-07 14:07:55

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nrv, 2017-10-07 14:07:55

Hello.
I have an ARM single board computer (Banana Pi). I would like to start firefox, put the file on download and, turning off the desktop from which I remotely connect, and go to sleep. Is it possible to run X without a monitor, so that later I can connect remotely? It’s just that if you do ssh -X, then, as I understand it, I won’t be able to turn off the desktop, since firefox will close in this case. That is, I wanted to use a banana as a server so that it would work on its own, but there is no analogue of transmission remote gui for downloading via ftp.

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Ivan, 2017-10-07
@nrv

Wget
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Ingvar, 2017-10-09
@take

if this file is a .torrent, set the transmition daemon and then through the web interface

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Stanislav Vlasov, 2017-11-15
@Stanislavvv

Purely for torrents - transmission-daemon with a webmord or cli client or rtorrent in screen and autoloading torrents when a .torrent file enters the appropriate directory.
For downloading via http/ftp - wget has already been advised.
If you need a remote desktop, you can use Xvnc, about which there are several articles, but I do not recommend it for RPI, because there is not enough memory for a terminal server these days.