I've been having a problem with an xterm display thrown to my local
screen vanishing mysteriously. The xterm process on the remote system
seems to still be running but the display disappears and I can find no
trace of it (not that I've got much clue about where I should be
looking). The disappearance seems to be related to some input event,
mouse movement or keystroke, but that may just be that it takes some
event to cause a re-evaluation of display context, I don't know whether
it's really related or not.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas about what might be causing
this, or more importantly how I might remedy it? It's somewhat critical
to my job function right now.
BTW, the net context doesn't seem like it should be a factor, except
possibly for performance characteristics, because the xterm display
comes up fine and seems to work fine for some brief interval. Anyway,
the big picture is that I first connect through the Internet using SSH
to log onto a corporate firewall system, then bring up the xterm session
to establish a secure pipe to my display. In the xterm session I then
ssh to an internal development server and open a source control
application that throws its GUI interface back to my desktop through the
X pipe. Obviously the environment opens the possibility of all kinds of
timing windows and transmission delays etc. but the reliability is too
poor for even this environment (actually it's very reliable, I can rely
on it failing within a minute or so almost every time).
Any helpful hints will be much appreciated, if I can even make it
slightly more robust so that I've got a chance of getting in and staying
up for a couple of minutes I can probably get some useful work done, as
it stands now I can't even manage that!
THANKS!
--Bruce McCulley
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