Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: Donald S Dunbar <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:51:48 -0800
Note that items 2, and I believe 3, below are not valid reasons since X
applications start perfectly well from Terminal.app. This was
addressed earlier today by J. Mckeown, who posted:
Just put this in your .login or your .tcshrc file:
if (! $?DISPLAY) then
setenv DISPLAY :0.0
endif
J. Mckeown
Don Dunbar
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Bruce Truax wrote:
> 2. Much of the unix use GUI displays using the X11 GUI widgets. These
> programs need to be started from an X11 environment. You can do this
> either
> by entering the correct commands in the X11.app application menu or
> just as
> frequently, you want to or have to start these from the command line
> so that
> you can specify command line options.
>
> 3. The same software mentioned in 2 can be run on a remote computer
> and
> displayed locally. The only way to do this is to ssh -x to a remote
> computer from an xterm and start the GUI software. I do this to
> remotely
> run a astronomical telescope written in X11. In fact, if OSX allowed
> for a
> client/server model like X11 it would be an order of magnitude more
> useful,
> and it is already the best OS available.
>
> Bruce Truax
>
> On 1/21/03 1:24 PM, "Ernst Mulder" <email@hidden> eloquently wrote:
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