Thanks for your response. Sorry for my laggard response. On Thu, 6 May 2004, chris wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:10:04PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote: > > > > I am logged into a Mac at the SMF lab. I amd ssh'd to > > thor.cs.utexas.edu. I used ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] to attempt > > to ensure that the correct display stuff would happen. Then I did...u > > > > thor.cs.utexas.edu$xdvi foo.dvi & > > > > ...and got... > > > > thor.cs.utexas.edu$ Error: Can't open display: > > > > [1]+ Exit 1 xdvi pt-report.dvi > > > > ...there has gotta be a way to make this work. Does anyone have a > > suggestion? > > does ssh -v tell you anything about being (un)able to do X11 > forwarding? I typed ssh -v and many lines were output. Seemed to be some sort of man type info. One of the lines said this: -X enable X11 connection forwarding ...this seems to be the sorta thing I want. So, maybe it at least thinks it is able to run ssh -X. > are you running from an xterm rather than 'terminal' > on the macos X machine (i'd heard that mattered at some point)? I am not sure what you mean. I have invoked these windows the only way I know how. To go under Applications then Utilities then click on Terminal. I suspect that means I am "running 'terminal' on the macos [macros?] X machine." and that I am not runnning from an xterm. > > i've certainly seen it work before from an osx laptop to the cs > machines, but i've also seen it fail from a 10.2 laptop apparently > due to using the Terminal app. > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
