[ale] rsh of gimp

[Wandered Inn]

"John M. Mills" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> > I've got two boxes networked together. I use one monitor and rsh
> > processes from the machine without a monitor.  Works fine with netscape
> > terms and other things.  When I attempt to rsh gimp, I get a message "**
> > WARNING **: cannot open display:"
> >
> > I can fire up an xterm via rsh and then fire up gimp from that xterm and
> > it starts fine.
> >
> > Is gimp somehow braindead or what??
> 
> What is the DISPLAY env on the host which is exporting 'gimp'?

I passed the -display flag to the host.  (denali:0.0)

> 
> Also, what authorization are your using? (I use lowly 'xhost'.)
> (but that's presumably OK re: runing the XTerm.)

xhost as well.

> 
> John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
>   Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0834
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

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