[PRL] Re: "dia" in the gimp?
Galen Williamson
gwilliam at ccs.neu.edu
Fri May 30 13:04:53 EDT 2003
Set the environment variable DISPLAY to your local machine's hostname and
your X screen number (normally 0.0). So I did this
> setenv DISPLAY alnitak:0.0
in tcsh, and I was able to launch dia.
--Galen.
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> > Assuming one can find a copy, I think dia is well-suited to drawing
> > state machines, although this is of course subject to individual
> > opinion.
>
> OK, I found darkside, and got the following interaction:
>
> wand at alnilam: ~> ssh darkside
> wand at darkside's password:
> Last login: Thu May 29 12:01:22 2003 from alnilam.ccs.neu.edu
> Welcome to the Crew Linux Beta
>
> Please send problem reports to linux-users at lists.ccs.neu.edu
>
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> xtitle: Command not found.
> ccsnews: Command not found.
> wand at darkside: ~> printenv PATH
> /opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.
> wand at darkside: ~> xterm &
> [1] 4048
> wand at darkside: ~> xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
>
> [1] Exit 1 xterm
> wand at darkside: ~> dia &
> [1] 4049
> wand at darkside: ~>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> [1] Exit 1 dia
> wand at darkside: ~>
>
> Now, how do I jigger my X server on alnilam so that it will display
> stuff from darkside (and/or how do I tell darkside to display on
> alnilam)?
>
> I do this just rarely enough that I forget how to do it from one time
> to the next.
>
> --Mitch
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