[NTLUG:Discuss] xhost question

[Val W. Harris]

Fred James wrote:
> For a telnet session from a Linux client (Red Hat 7.2) to an SGI host 
> (IRIX 6.4), can you offer any advice in setting up to run "toolchest" 
> and like functionality on the client?
> I am using xhost on the client, and setenv DISPLAY on the host, and 
> "toolchest -title `hostname` &" seems to execute without error, but the 
> toolchest never appears (or xclock, or winterm).
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 

I haven't worked with IRIX in a while, but I was wondering ...

Is the "toolchest" application an OpenGL app?  If it is, it won't run on
an X windows server without OpenGl capabilities.

Val
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