20010508: 20010507: setting DISPLAY variable

Talbot,

If you can send xclock (or xterm, or even xdpyinfo) from the Alpha
to the linux machine, then you most likely have DISPLAy set to
the correct machine:0 display. But, since that wasn't what you
showed in the message, I have to check that possibility too.
Are you sure you were running xclock from the alpha back to your machine,
or was it running locally?

You can usually specify what window manager you will be using
in your user profiler. That should be an option in one of the screens
so that the next time you log in, you get that session. Often, if you are 
running
the xdm login manager, you have a tab to select which window manager
you will choose to use.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





>From: Talbot Brooks <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200105081442.f48EgFp00302

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>I will try to reverse the DISPLAY location, but I think that it is working
>correctly since I can get xclock to pop up.  I haven't tried KDE or FVWM -
>I'm new to Linux and unsure of what I'm doing there.  I would assume that I
>would drop to init 3 and type KDE or FVWM?  Is that correct?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Talbot J. Brooks
>Dept. of Geography
>Arizona State University
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Unidata Support [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:34 PM
>To: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: 20010507: setting DISPLAY variable
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>Talbot,
>
>I realized I sent my respnse to the address from which your question
>originated. See enclosed.
>
>Steve Chiswell
>Unidata User Support
>
>
>
>>From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden>
>>Organization: Unidata Program Center/UCAR
>>Keywords:
>
>
>
>Talbot,
>
>The xdpyinfo does show your default visual is 8 bits.
>I'm assuming you are running in a csh. I saw your setenv line
>below for your DISPLAY variable. I assumed you ment:
>% setenv DISPLAY  met1.la.asu.edu:0
>% ntl
>
>instead you have:
>>>> setenv met1.la.asu.edu DISPLAY:0 (this is the Linux box)
>>>>ntl
>
>
>If you are actually typing what you show below, then that can be the problem
>since
>you would not be contacting your LInux system display- you probably are
>contacting
>the Alpoha X server which you aren't allowed to do.
>
>If that isn't the problem....
>Have you tried using KDE or FVWM instead of GNOME?
>
>
>Steve Chiswell
>Unidata User Support
>
>
>
>>From: Talbot Brooks <address@hidden>
>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>>Keywords: 200105041505.f44F5Qp14420
>
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>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>Content-Disposition: inline
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>>Please see the attached file, display.txt, for the requested xdpyinfo
>output.
>>
>>Thanks for your help!
>>Talbot
>>
>>PS - please respond to me at the address@hidden address.
>>
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