[ale] rsh of gimp

[Bob's ALE Mail]

> 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??

Assume the box that you invoke rsh on is foo, instead of

	rsh bar gimp

try

	xhost bar
	rsh bar "setenv DISPLAY foo:0.0;gimp"

This is needed for most X programs because they use DISPLAY, which
defaults to the console of the machine that they are running on.  Debug
this using xv or xclock.
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

Bob Toxen
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