| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
Hi again, Read thru the manual chapter 7 of the DECwindow User Guide (Running Remote Applications) to see how it was done. Sounds simple enough : % xhost remote_node login to remote node %set DISPLAY my_node Well my node is STARMAN and the remote node is JESSICA. We both are using TCP/IP as the transport so this is how I did it : % xhost JESSICA % rlogin JESSICA login:guest % set DISPLAY STARMAN But when I try and execute any x application I get an error opening the toolkit and nothing goes. I'm not sure if I'm using the correct node names. STARMAN & JESSICA are the hostname's of each system and were the names used during the "netsetup install" proceedure. I am only using internet address in the form 192.0.0.1 & 192.0.0.2. I have even tried entering the node names into Session Manager Security but that didn't seem to make any difference. What have I missed? Walter Zambotti
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| 1962.1 | STAR::MCLEMAN | Jeff McLeman, VMS Development | Fri Dec 22 1989 07:39 | 9 | |
Not being a total UNIX wizard, I'll take a stab. isn't it supposed top be: %setenv DISPLAY my_node ^^^^ The display must be an envrironment variable. But then, I could be wrong. | |||||
| 1962.2 | syntax error | COOKIE::KITTELL | Richard - Architected Info Mgmt | Fri Dec 22 1989 19:20 | 7 |
Also the value of the variable should be node:0.0 for TCP transport or node::0.0 for DECnet transport (number of colons significant). Hence you should be doing: % setenv DISPLAY starman:0.0 | |||||
| 1962.3 | or without the .0 | KERNEL::CARLETONL | Back in the future | Mon Jan 08 1990 17:56 | 5 |
Works fine without the .0 ie %setenv DISPLAY xorn:0
Les
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