On 11/17/06, Karel Gentens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looking at the installed software, is sais that Xorg and KDE is installed, but running startx gives: zLinux001:/etc # startx You did not install any X-Server \(e.g. Xorg\)! Please install at least one server to start X. I'm aborting now.
So what type of video card and mouse do you have on your zSeries machine? ;-) While it probably is wise to resist the temptation, if you really have to do graphical things, the best option is probably to do X11 forwarding through your ssh session. The logon will then set the environment variables so the X application finds your X-Server on the workstation. And you would need to run an X-Server on your workstation (if that's not Linux, then you might be able to use Cygwin for it or something like Hummingbird Exceed). With that set up, you start your X-application. An alternative path is to use VNC - you start vncserver on the zSeries session and then use a Java-enabled browser on the workstation to connect to the server (or the vnc-viewer). It does work, but it's not very good for graphical action games on zSeries :-) If you're work on that project mentioned before where cost, resources, skills and performance did not play a role, then you could also start a graphical desktop as your X-application. It's very expensive and depending on your resources it is more like kicking a dead whale along the beach of Belgium. Because both the VNC X-server and the end of your ssh tunnel appear as a local X-server on 127.0.0.1, you might be able to run the X-windows login soliciter as an application to show you a login window on them and have that spawn your graphical desktop. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
