| Re: WINDOW: Unable to connect to X Windows display: localhost:10.0 [message #84209] |
Mon, 06 May 2013 06:43 |
Jeremy Bailin
Messages: 618
Registered: April 2008
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On 5/5/13 11:39 AM, Gompie wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using windows and connect to a linux server over a VPN. On the linux server I initiate a screen and start an idl session in the screen. My idl script takes several hours and whenever I want to access and use idl session, I login to linux sever and go to the screen and reach the idl session.
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> 'Sometimes' I get this error when I execute any idl script in the IDL session that is in the screen.
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> Compiled module: $MAIN$.
> % WINDOW: Unable to connect to X Windows display: localhost:10.0
> % WINDOW: Unable to open X Windows display.
> Is your DISPLAY environment variable set correctly?
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$ 1
> /net/orbit/home/idlscriptname.pro
> o
> the idlscriptname.pro does not open any x terminal. It is just a bunch of idl lines.
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> If I restart the IDL session then everything works fine again until the next error message that can happen anytime when I login to the linux sever again.
> Any solutions.
> Gompie
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There are IDL commands that require the display to be active, even
though they don't plot anything (a list of these might be a useful
resource...). If you switch to the Z-buffer, they won't try to launch X.
-Jeremy.
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