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Penio Penev (penev@venezia) wrote:
: Hi sgi netters,
: 
: I work on a X terminal, connected to a network of Indigos (4.0.1) and a
: Crimson(4.0.4). Usually I connect to a certain host and start Xsgi and 4Dwm
: from it. As long as I work on the same host, My DISPLAY points
: correctly to my Xterminal. When I wont to do computations on a
: different machine though, I have to rlogin there and start and monitor
: the job. The problem is that I no longer have my DISPLAY properly
: pointed at and certain X features (for example the -keymap option of
: xwsh) do not work.
: 
: I do not want to use telnet, becuse It doesn't understand euivalent
: hosts.
: 
: The man pages, say that the inclusion of DISPLAY propagation is in the
: to-do list. Is there a newer version of rlogin, which does this? Or is
: there a known workaround? Can I use telnet, perhaps with some options
: to setup equivalent hosts and/or users?
: 
: I feel, that this may be a problem for any user, which has the DISPLAY
: different from the REMOTEHOST, presumably all who use Xterminals.
: 
: Any info would be greatly appreciated.
: 
: -- Penio.
: 

Thank You very much for the suggestions. Besides the folowups I got
one email also.

There seem to be two basic methods for doing this. 1) Transmit
additional information in the TERM envar. 2) Use the rsh to connext
and then invoke xterm/winterm/xwsh with the -display option.

The first method is more general in the sense, that You may adapt it
to trasmit any information to the remote host.

The second one transmits oly the $DIPSPLAY envar, but is good, that it
lives the -e(xecuite) option of xwsh free for launching an application
on the remote machine. This again leaves room for transmitting any
information to the remote host (via the application launched). 

I personaly chose the 'rsh host xwsh -display $DISPLAY -e app_name',
since I usually do this from toolchest or 4Dwm.

I would suggest the two workarounds to be included in the man page of
rlogin in the BUGS: section.

Thank You again!

-- Penio.