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exporting xterms



"Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at coe.neu.edu> writes:

> Jerry,
> 	I kept playing with it, and I got it to work.  I actually had to
> set the enviroment with an export DISPLAY ip:0.0 - I was suprised.  With
> IRIX and other version of UNIX &  linux in the past I only needed to do an
> xterm -d ip:0.0. I actually just confirmed that I could do that with my
> Irix box at work. Thats real agrivating.

Now that you mention it, I had that same problem, too. It turned out that
Hummingbird has a macro "@a@" for its run scripts that expands to the
NT machine's ip address. If you use the command as "xterm -display @a@:0"
it will expand that when it launches the xterm from the linux box.


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