Re: No Terminal Opening
Re: No Terminal Opening
- Subject: Re: No Terminal Opening
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:07 -0500 (CDT)
+ odinm <email@hidden>:
> I should clarify my predicament. I use X11 to do X forwarded
> sessions over SSH. The new fangled "X launches automatically"
> doesn't help me at all because what I really really want out of X11,
> is a terminal to type "ssh -Y blah blah blah".
Well, it should work in that case also: X application connects to :10
(typically) at the remote end, which is port 6010 really, the remote
sshd accepts the connection and forwards it to the local ssh, which
connects to the local display. Magic happens, the X server starts up
locally and talks to the remote X application, and Bob's your uncle.
In theory.
> The problem I have is that when I launch X11 2.2.3, and then try to
> launch a terminal window by cmd-n, or from the X11 menu, or from the
> X11 dock icon, __nothing happens__. No terminal launches. I have
> to quit and restart X11 until it finally does launch (today it was 5
> times).
Is it possible that you are just being a tad impatient? It is my
understanding that X11 sometimes needs to build a font cache on
startup, and that can take quite a bit of time. But it shouldn't have
to happen more than once. It might be worth checking out if something
triggers this on every startup in your case, and why. Read the script
/usr/X11/bin/startx to see what is being done, so you can look for the
associated process and see if I am right. (Of course I am right, but
you have to see for yourself. I could be wrong of course.)
> Interestingly, I then get a whole stack of terminals (if I tried 10
> times, I get 10 terminals when they finally decided to show up for
> me).
Makes sense: All those xterms are all waiting to be connected to the
server port, and if no X server has been there to serve them, they
will all still be there waiting when the X server is finally coming
up.
> Additionally, the windows first appear with out any borders,
> stuck in the upper left corner -- it takes a few seconds but the
> border eventually comes on
The X server is probably awfully busy in those first few seconds, if
it is trying to deal with the startup of ten xterms simultaneously.
> And, sigh, __also__, the old problem of focus is back where I have
> to move my windows around so that they aren't overlapping in any of
> the areas I might be clicking.
Yup, that old chestnut is still around.
> Anything else I can complain about?
The weather?
- Harald
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