On Thursday 19 June 2003 6:05 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:58, Tom Emerson wrote:
I'll believe you for the moment, but I suspect there is a little bit of misdirection going on here by using xterm as an example. ...
Fair enough, do this then startx /opt/gnome2/bin/evolution
Note that you don't have window borders or the ability to resize ... Then ctrl+alt+f2 to go to a console, log in as the same user who started evolution, and do
export DISPLAY=:0.0 mwm&
and I think we've reached a solution for the original poster, however the "ctl-alt-<f2>" might be a bit of a red-herring -- the user is running from a WINDOWS machine, not a linux workstation. In this case, the "export DISPLAY" should direct the X output to be his windows system [which is is presumably already doing to get evolution to display on his windows system in the first place] Long story short, however, is still that he should be starting a display manager instead of evolution, and from THERE he should start evolution(*). Of course, the presumption that he is doing "startx .../evolution" was a guess on my part to begin with -- checking back at the start of the thread I see he said:
I have cygwin/XFree86 installed to give me a X desktop.
Then I ssh over to my Linux box in the lab and run evolution with the display coming back to my local XFree86 setup.
so in reality it would appear he is doing "startx" from [essentially] a DOS prompt on his windows system -- obviously he cannot be starting "evolution" as part of the startx invocation! Tom (*) or, once he has ssh'd to the linux machine, he should issue the command(s) mwm&; evolution& to get both running on his windows machine... -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net