I believe you need to setup a VNC server so that you have an X11 environment (basically it wants to run a GUI).
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, toughluck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:01:36 PM UTC-8, Judson Wilson wrote: >> >> Trading on hotel wifi is a recipe for disaster. >> >> Took the good advice from both (thanks) and stopped trading for the > remainder of the vacation. > > Thinking that it was more important to have a quality connection between > JBookTrader and IB rather than between me and JBookTrader upon my return I > started looking at the option of running JbookTrader in a shell account. > Has any one done this? > > My internet provider shell account did not have java. After unsuccessful > tries to install java in it, I then tried to find another internet provider > with java jre 1.7. I opened an account with hypeshell.com and tried to > install IB Gateway (unix version) there.. but have not been successful. > It gives me some errors that it needs to set an 'X11 display variable' and > it gets stuck giving me other errors such as 'Thread CPU time measurement > is not supported'. I read some post saying that I could use a program > called Xming in conjunction with Putty to display the (what would be) > monitor screen into my personal computer. Still no success on that either. > > Bottom line, I thought I could have a command line only (no graphics) IB > Gateway accessible through SSH (putty), and then start JBookTrader on a > java command line and look at the JbookTrader web console over the net with > the advantage of a fast quality connection between JBookTrader and IB, but > I have not progressed beyond the first step: getting the IB gateway to run > on a provider's shell account. Has anyone been successful in this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JBookTrader" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
