From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 20:28:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20465 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20456 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00530; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:27:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: mark thompson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree86.vs.solaris In-Reply-To: <199610101333.GAA02442@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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