[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
>
>  To subscribe to the list, visit https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/linux-users
>  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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