On Saturday 05 November 2016 20:35:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 November 2016 19:55:17 albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: > > Startx > > > > Or before that man startx > > > > This assumes you have x server installed > > > > Can't you also forward the display to some other x server running > > some some pc Linux box > > That works only half-a**ed, very poorly from the pi or not at all, and > linuxcnc gets hung in that event with no control gui, so I either have > to power cycle the pi, or login from another ssh -Y session to issue > a "sudo reboot". > > I think the pi doesn't like that I am running the nouveau driver on > this machine. When lcnc does open a gui here, its very very slow, > taking around 15 seconds to full draw the initial screen. But that > does not appear to bother the other 4 machines. > > A geany session has no difficulty opening its gfx window on this > machine from any of the other 4 x86 machines or from the pi. However, > the other 4 are running x as default, two with xfce, and two using tde > since they have the iron and memory to do it while taking a snooze or > while busy. > > I did see, several times in my efforts to "startx" that x was disabled > by being masked, whatever the heck that is. I am used to wheezy > slang, but this is jessie, with a 4.4.4-??rtai kernel. > > Doing a 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure X11-common' and leaving it at 'console > users' only, didn't change anything that I could see. > > At this point, I am a stranger in a strange (jessie on a pi-3) land. > > Thanks Chris.
PS: lxde is about as lightweight as x comes, but as I went to install it, its 165megs to dl, and 447 megs on the disk. And this is called lightweight? Next is lightdm. Then it *might* work. Mmm, lightdm is part of lxde now. That and xinit should complete that. How fast will it run on the pi? Dunno but I'll find out in the morning. :-} Might be fast enough, :) and it might not be. :-( Thanks Chris. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
