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Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows [message #64497 is a reply to message #64496]

Fri, 02 January 2009 12:52

Foldy Lajos
Messages: 268
Registered: October 2001

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Hi,

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, anne wrote:

> I've installed IDL 7.0 on a PC server running 64bit Fedora. This
> computer has more processing power and memory than any of the local
> pcs so I want users to be able to login remotely from their own
> windows Pcs using a remote shell and access idl from the server.
> For access from the windows pcs I tried unsucessfully to use Exceed
> and therefore switched to using xming - an open source xserver
> package. This appeared to be working well - the eclipse desktop could
> be seen and display windows using direct graphics worked properly. I
> cannot seem to get object graphics to work properly however. In
> windows I just get a blank display window when I try to run the
> Revolution application or the itools applications. I have made sure
> that rendering is done by software, not hardware but that hasn't
> helped.
> Has anyone else come across this problem before?
>
> Happy New Year!
> Anne
>

Have you tried xming-mesa? In theory, it can do the software rendering on
the server side, which can be faster than the client side sw renderer
(less network traffic).

regards,
lajos

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		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 02 January 2009 19:17
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: R.Bauer on Fri, 02 January 2009 13:18
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2009 12:53
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: Foldy Lajos on Fri, 02 January 2009 12:52
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: anne on Fri, 02 January 2009 12:38
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2009 12:25
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: anne on Tue, 06 January 2009 10:52
		Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 January 2009 04:22

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