On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 22:44 America/Chicago, Butch Steinert
wrote:
Anyone out there trying to run Java as an X11 app on Mac OSX?
I don't think anyone has written a Java implementation for Mac OS X
that has X11 bindings. Apple certainly would have no interest in doing
that, as they have their hands full enough getting it working with the
native windowing environment.
I can't seem to get the Java app to startup in X11 mode. It always
wants to start as a Mac app.
It can't use X11 for its display, it has no code or libraries that
support that, any more than any other native Macintosh application.
Perhaps someday Apple will come up with a way of doing network display
forwarding for Quartz, but I've not heard any news about that yet (and
it wouldn't really address your need anyway).
I want to be able to ssh to my Mac from another Unix box, fire up my
Java app and have it display back to the X server running on my Unix
box.
I'm afraid you're not going to be able to do that. You could perhaps
use VNC, but it's not the same thing, I know.
First off. If I ssh to the Mac with X11 forwarding turned on the
DISPLAY variable doesn't get set on the Mac. So, I can set the DISPLAY
variable explicitly to my Unix box display but this bypasses the ssh
X11 tunneling that I want to use.
That sounds like your Mac's ssh daemon is not configured to support X
forwarding. Not surprising, I guess, since the OS doesn't (yet) ship
with X support. Perhaps it will change someday? I'm sure someone else
on the list will know the details of how to fix this configuration
issue.
