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Re: Running IDL remotely - problems with xwindows [message #64499 is a reply to message #64498]

Fri, 02 January 2009 12:25

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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anne writes:

> 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?

I haven't seen the problem before, but I have been able to run
object graphics programs remotely from my LINUX box running IDL 7
to my Windows machine, running XMING. It is S-L-O-W. I use
SSH Secure Shell to log onto my LINUX box. I think the only
thing special we did there was turn on Tunnel X11 connections,
but you must have this working or you wouldn't see direct graphics
windows.

So, don't know, except that it is possible. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Have you tried doing this to a 32-bit machine? I wonder
if something about the 64-bit is getting in your way?
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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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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