Re: [Siglinux] Eterm + vim == arrrrrgh

2003-03-05 Thread Ricardo Lopez
It was a term problem,I figured as much too. I just added: begin misc term_name xterm end misc to my Eterm theme file and it fixed everything up =-D Alfonso Lopez VP Finance: www.utacm.org B.S. Computer Science: University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cs.utexas.edu/~lebouf

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread chris
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:25:32PM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > I don't really get how to do this. so, read the man page for ssh/sshd? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (suggested reading for everyone, actually. how to ask smart questions to smart people in such a w

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Shashank G. Khandelwal
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Andrew Gaul wrote: > > How do I fix this? I don't know how I would add something to the PATH > > that corresponds to my non-interactive login shell. > > Convince ssh to source your profile (possibly edit $HOME/.ssh/rc on the > remote machine?) or execute

Re: [Siglinux] Eterm + vim == arrrrrgh

2003-03-05 Thread Omar El-Domeiri
I'd also like to note, a friend as said multi gnome terminal has actual useful features.. after looking at their webpage there are some neat features. The regular gnome-term used to and probably still is a horrible terminal emulator.. many keys would not get sent over it.. "home" and "end" for cer

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Shashank G. Khandelwal
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:57:40AM +0700, Jason Smith wrote: > > ssh machine echo $PATH yields: > > > > /usr/local/globus-2.2.3/bin:/usr/local/globus-2.2.3/sbin:/usr/local/bin > [snip] > > Hmm, if you typed those in as you emailed, then $PATH got interpolated > before ssh was executed. That is

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:02 am, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > My path is not ok. > > ssh machine echo $PATH yields: > > /usr/local/globus-2.2.3/bin:/usr/local/globus-2.2.3/sbin:/usr/local/bin [snip] Hmm, if you typed those in as you emailed, th

Re: [Siglinux] Eterm + vim == arrrrrgh

2003-03-05 Thread Omar El-Domeiri
thats what I never understood.. why all these other terms with no functional advantages, I understand getting multi-language ones, but the others.. whats the big hoopla.. different things for everyone I suppose I want a terminal emulator that functions properly. You'd think all of them would but a

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:42 pm, chris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:36:30AM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > > (tabs in email kind of suck--presumably you had your tabstop set at <8 > chars but mine are standard inside of mutt and thus

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew Gaul
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:02:48AM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > ssh machine echo $PATH yields: > *something* > > However: ssh eye2 which xauth > *nothing* > > I would have expected the two to yield consistent results. There are good reasons why there is not consistent behavior.

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Shashank G. Khandelwal
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:42:22AM -0600, chris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:36:30AM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > > > (tabs in email kind of suck--presumably you had your tabstop set at <8 chars sorry, will fix. > you ought to try 'ssh machine which xauth' or 'ssh machine type

terminal du jour (was Re: [Siglinux] Eterm + vim == arrrrrgh)

2003-03-05 Thread chris
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:16:51AM -0600, Victor Pelt wrote: > > Eterm with transparent background does > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:19, Omar El-Domeiri wrote: > > nothing beats xterm. such religious-war-fodder. why is your favorite term better other than 'i think it's cool'? (this challenge dir

Re: [Siglinux] Eterm + vim == arrrrrgh

2003-03-05 Thread Victor Pelt
Eterm with transparent background does On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:19, Omar El-Domeiri wrote: > nothing beats xterm. > > -Omar > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:11:34PM -0600, Ricardo Lopez wrote: > > A random problem just popped up out of nowhere: When I am using vim > > through Eterm vim acts up. S

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread chris
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:36:30AM -0600, Shashank G. Khandelwal wrote: > (tabs in email kind of suck--presumably you had your tabstop set at <8 chars but mine are standard inside of mutt and thus your lines are >80 characters and wrap yuckily...just fyi) > ssh machine 'nohup startx

Re: [Siglinux] Trying to start X using a script on many machines

2003-03-05 Thread Shashank G. Khandelwal
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:48:48PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Background X whenever you start it up > ssh $machine "/usr/bin/X11/X &" I tried this, and it didn't solve my problem. I'm also listing below a few suggestions from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the results of those experiments. 1/ He