[NTLUG:Discuss] xhost question

[Steve Baker]

Val W. Harris wrote:
> 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.

That might be - quite a few IRIX desktop widgets are written in OpenGL - even
some that you'd think were 'obviously' not (like gdiff for example).

However, I'd be very suprised if 'xclock' has been rewritten into OpenGL - the
standard version most definitely isn't.

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