home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!constellation!rex!ben
- From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: How can I rlogin with the DISPLAY envar propagated?
- Message-ID: <C0ILxL.D7z@rex.uokhsc.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 03:05:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.000124.1271@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
- Lines: 19
-
- penev@venezia (Penio Penev) writes:
-
- >Hi sgi netters,
-
- >I work on a X terminal, connected to a network of Indigos (4.0.1) and a
- >Crimson(4.0.4). Usually I connect to a certain host and start Xsgi and 4Dwm
- >from it. As long as I work on the same host, My DISPLAY points
- >correctly to my Xterminal. When I wont to do computations on a
- >different machine though, I have to rlogin there and start and monitor
- >the job. The problem is that I no longer have my DISPLAY properly
- >pointed at and certain X features (for example the -keymap option of
- >xwsh) do not work.
-
- Why not use the xon(1) script found on many archives --
- it starts up a remote xterm pretty nicely.
- xon remotehost xterm -ls
- would fire an xterm back to your Xterminal.
- --
- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
-