[GRASS-user] xwindow, dhcp and grass

[Gerald Nelson]

More updates.

d.mon displays a window.
gis.m displays the Output window and the map logo window. But doesn't display the window where you can actually do things. And when I type say g.list in the xterm window, nothing happens.

Jerry

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:57:02 +0000
>From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>  
>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] xwindow, dhcp and grass  
>To: Gerald Nelson <gnelson at uiuc.edu>
>Cc: grassuser at grass.itc.it
>
>
>Gerald Nelson wrote:
>
>> This question is only partially related to grass. I'm currently in
>> Rome (at FAO) for a couple of months and want to use xwindows on my
>> laptop to access my linux box with grass on it back home in the
>> states. I'm staying in an apartment that uses a usb ADSL connection
>> (tisoli for those who might know about this). I have tried the
>> following.
>> 
>> 1. run xming with the default settings created with xlaunch (starts a passive x server)
>> 2. run either putty or ssh with x tunneling turned on
>> 3. in the terminal window I can type xclock & and the little clock window shows up.
>> 
>> However, when I type grass63, choose my region and then gis.m, if I
>> get anything it takes a LOOOOOONG time for the logo window to appear
>> and the output window, but the gui never shows up.
>> 
>> Any tips on how to do this appreciated. Do I need to set the DISPLAY
>> variable on the linux box? Any other settings I should know about?
>
>The only other thing which I can suggest is to enable "trusted" X11
>forwarding in ssh, using "ssh -Y" (rather than "ssh -X") or by setting
>ForwardX11Trusted in the client config file.
>
>-- 
>Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
Gerald Nelson
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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