RE: Perverse application of X11
RE: Perverse application of X11
- Subject: RE: Perverse application of X11
- From: "Paul E. Robichaux" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:28:52 -0500
- Thread-topic: Perverse application of X11
Point taken. I am a newbie to X (although not to UNIX; I remember back in the
days when we were GLAD to have curses! Why, you whippersnappers.. Oops,
sorry). Thanks for the helpful advice. As soon as I get this set of
applications packaged and shipped off to the customer, I'll tinker with it.
Cheers,
-Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Ahern [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:22 PM
> To: Paul E. Robichaux
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Perverse application of X11
>
>
> Paul E. Robichaux wrote:
> > This is going to sound really odd, but I want to use my OS
> X box as a
> > front-end to control Oracle (<spit>) applications running on Linux
> > Vmware machines. When I ssh to one of the Vmware boxes and use the
> > standard "startx" script, I get a bunch of console spew and no
> > Mac-side windows. Is this possible?
>
> I'm not sure it's possible. You're trying to start the Linux
> X server, but expecting client windows to appear on your Mac.
> When you do "startx" on vmware, an X server starts on the
> vmware console. And that's it. It doesn't care where you
> ssh'ed in from.
>
> I the normal configuration that doesn't involve the Mac, I
> assume that Oracle has an X11 client application that you
> start after you do the "startx".
>
> Instead of running "startx" from the vmware host, you should
> run that Oracle client application instead, making sure to
> either tunnel your X11 display through ssh or setting your
> DISPLAY environment variable to your Mac.
>
> -Sean
>
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