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Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 [message #64360 is a reply to message #64288]

Thu, 18 December 2008 06:20

karo03de
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Registered: March 2007

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You will not be able to run the GUI, which is displayed under Apple Window
system. That is only with ScreenSharing possible.
However the terminal version will work. Type idl and ...
Regards
Karsten

Am Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:34 +0100 schrieb pford-@bcm.tmc.edu
<pford@bcm.tmc.edu>:

> Greetings,
>
> I am (occasionally) using IDL on a MacOS X 10.5.6, and I want to set
> it up so a person I am collaborating with can access my Mac, which is
> considerably more powerful than his PC laptop. I believe I have solved
> the issues with port forwarding through my firewall/vpn box and
> getting the Mac configured to accept the ssh –X logins.
>
> Not being a unix person, I am now at a point where I can open a remote
> (severe) X11 shell and enter CLI commands, but I don’t know how to
> open/run IDL from the X11 shell and see the GUI. Some of this may be
> due to paths being needed to be set.
>
> I would greatly appreciate advice on how to get this functioning. It
> is probably simple once I know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick Ford, M.D.
> Pford*@bcm.tmc.edu

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		Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Patrick V. Ford on Tue, 16 December 2008 18:57
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: M. Katz on Sat, 20 December 2008 21:44
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: karo03de on Sat, 20 December 2008 16:18
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 18 December 2008 22:40
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Marshall Perrin on Thu, 18 December 2008 15:33
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Patrick V. Ford on Thu, 18 December 2008 13:26
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Patrick V. Ford on Thu, 18 December 2008 12:37
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: karo03de on Thu, 18 December 2008 06:20
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Patrick V. Ford on Thu, 18 December 2008 05:54

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