Re: X Window Manager
Re: X Window Manager
- Subject: Re: X Window Manager
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:08:54 -0700
At 12:06 PM -0500 4/5/04, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Don MacQueen wrote:
So far, so good.
I used to do exactly this with MacX and OpenWindows. I just now
tested it with XFree86 and came close. More specifically, I can do
it, and it works, but not entirely satisfactorily. OpenWin's
"FileManager" app comes up, for example, and I can use it to navigate
the file system on the Sun.
First, edit the .xinitrc file in your Mac home directory so that the
last line is something like this:
exec xterm -iconic -ls -sb -sl 500 -geometry 80x10+5-30 -name login
Make sure that .xinitrc does not include commands to start any window
manager.
(If you don't have a .xinitrc file, the default one is
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc in an XFree86 installation)
Start up Apple's X11, set preferences to include a root window. May
have to restart it.
Start X11. In the xterm window that appears (it will be an ugly
little thing in the upper left hand corner, no scroll bars, no
nothing) login to the remote Sun
ssh -X remotemachine
Changing your .xinitrc like this will prevent window managers from
running at all!
That's exactly the idea, at least with regard to the local machine.
The window manager runs on the remote machine, so there should *not*
be a window manager running on the local machine.
Once you've started X11, you can open a shell(any
shell, Terminal.app works just fine) and set the DISPLAY variable if it
isn't already set.
for bash:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
or for TCSH:
set DISPLAY :0.0 <-- I think. Always forget tcsh syntax
setenv
now just ssh -X user@remotemachine /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
will bring up an Xterm running on the remote machine. Change the path
if necessary, of course. just "xterm" should work if your paths are set
up correctly.
--Evan
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Don MacQueen
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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