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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:27:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xfree86.vs.solaris
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961011202546.232X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610101333.GAA02442@squirrel.tgsoft.com>

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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, mark thompson wrote:

> I am running Xfree86 on my 2.1.5 system. One ongoing problem is that i
> cannot get windows to appear on my screen from remotely operating x
> clients if and only if they are solaris-like binaries.

Did you grant access to that host to display stuff on your X server? I've
run Netscape from a Sun and it worked great.  (maybe it was sunos, not
solaris)

1.  run xhost +remote_host_name
2.  login to remote
3.  setenv DISPLAY your_host_name:0
4.  Run X app.

> My assumption is that there is a problem with the window manager
> interface. I have seen the same failure running twm and mwm. Haven't
> tried any others.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Some programs (vic notably) throw a fit if they can't allocate shared
memory w/ the server.  This is a problem with remote X sessions.

You might take a look at the system log file and see if netscape or the X
server are emitting errors there.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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