This question is only partially related to grass. I'm currently in Rome (at FAO) for a couple of months and want to use xwindows on my laptop to access my linux box with grass on it back home in the states. I'm staying in an apartment that uses a usb ADSL connection (tisoli for those who might know about this). I have tried the following.
1. run xming with the default settings created with xlaunch (starts a passive x server)
2. run either putty or ssh with x tunneling turned on
3. in the terminal window I can type xclock & and the little clock window shows up.
However, when I type grass63, choose my region and then gis.m, if I get anything it takes a LOOOOOONG time for the logo window to appear and the output window, but the gui never shows up.
Any tips on how to do this appreciated. Do I need to set the DISPLAY variable on the linux box? Any other settings I should know about?
Thanks, Jerry
Gerald Nelson
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Gerald Nelson wrote:
This question is only partially related to grass. I'm currently in
Rome (at FAO) for a couple of months and want to use xwindows on my
laptop to access my linux box with grass on it back home in the
states. I'm staying in an apartment that uses a usb ADSL connection
(tisoli for those who might know about this). I have tried the
following.
1. run xming with the default settings created with xlaunch (starts a passive x server)
2. run either putty or ssh with x tunneling turned on
3. in the terminal window I can type xclock & and the little clock window shows up.
However, when I type grass63, choose my region and then gis.m, if I
get anything it takes a LOOOOOONG time for the logo window to appear
and the output window, but the gui never shows up.
Any tips on how to do this appreciated. Do I need to set the DISPLAY
variable on the linux box? Any other settings I should know about?
The only other thing which I can suggest is to enable "trusted" X11
forwarding in ssh, using "ssh -Y" (rather than "ssh -X") or by setting
ForwardX11Trusted in the client config file.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
On 20/01/07 19:12, Gerald Nelson wrote:
This question is only partially related to grass. I'm currently in
Rome (at FAO) for a couple of months and want to use xwindows on my
laptop to access my linux box with grass on it back home in the
states. I'm staying in an apartment that uses a usb ADSL connection
(tisoli for those who might know about this). I have tried the
following.
1. run xming with the default settings created with xlaunch (starts a
passive x server) 2. run either putty or ssh with x tunneling turned
on 3. in the terminal window I can type xclock & and the little clock
window shows up.
However, when I type grass63, choose my region and then gis.m, if I
get anything it takes a LOOOOOONG time for the logo window to appear
and the output window, but the gui never shows up.
Any tips on how to do this appreciated. Do I need to set the DISPLAY
variable on the linux box? Any other settings I should know about?
No idea about this specific problem, but I have had very good experience running GRASS over an nxserver/nxclient environment (using freenx servier and nomachine's nxclient).
You might have to follow this http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-September/025596.html
if you get "Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown" as an error.
Moritz