Re: Alternative window managers for Apple X11?
Re: Alternative window managers for Apple X11?
- Subject: Re: Alternative window managers for Apple X11?
- From: Rich Morin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:19:01 -0800
If I could run the app in a regular ssh session, I could use Terminal's
scrollbars, etc. When I try this, however, the app complains:
couldn't connect to display ":0" at .../Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55.
Maybe I just need a way to tell the app how to reach my X11 server. Help?
I got a bit experimental, with some success. If I start up X11 on OSX
and tell its default terminal window to "ssh -X cfcl", I am then able
to print out the DISPLAY variable on cfcl:
rdm@cfcl [~] 1: echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
If I then ssh to cfcl from a Terminal window and run "setenv DISPLAY
localhost:10.0", I am able to run my app successfully. There is a bit
too much black magic here to make me entirely comfortable, but it works!
Could someone please tell me:
* What "localhost:10.0" is telling the X11 client?
* Whether DISPLAY is likely to change the next time I ssh in from the
X11 terminal on my OSX box? (That is, am I safe in putting a line
into a .login file?)
* Is there a more reasonable way to do all this?
-r
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