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From: paulo@ohmeda.com (Paul Ourada)
Subject: Launching remote X applications
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.161957.648@ohmeda.com>
Organization: Ohmeda Monitoring Systems
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 16:19:57 GMT

Hi again.  I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions and tips wrt 
launching remote X applications.  It seems, that my problem was specifically
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.  I will cover the entire procedure
below for those other newcomers like myself.

setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/openwin
setenv FONTPATH $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts
setenv HELPPATH $OPENWINHOME/lib/help
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $OPENWINHOME/lib:/usr/lib
setenv MANPATH $OPENWINHOME/share/man:/usr/man

when you rlogin or rsh, set the DISPLAY env var thusly:

setenv DISPLAY "you host name":0.0

Scott Brim <swb@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> gave me the following script which he calls rx:

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#!/bin/sh -

host=$1 ; shift

case $DISPLAY in
:0|:0.0|unix:0|unix:0.0) xhost $host >/dev/null ; DISPLAY=`hostname`:0
esac

rsh -n $host "sh -c 'DISPLAY=$DISPLAY $@ >/dev/null 2>&1&'"

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I haven't tried it yet, so I can't tell you if it works, but Scott seems like a 
nice guy...:-)  He says that his officemate has a more complicated one.


Again, thanks to all that have replied.  It has been an uplifting experience.

Paul E. Ourada
Software Engineer
Ohmeda Monitoring Systems
paulo@ohmeda.com