GUI on HP Itanium Box

[leela-india]

Hi HP-UXers,
Iam Leela from India.

I am a new HP-UX user and found lot of valuable information from the forum. Iam unable to find the following things on a HP 11.23 Itanium box:

1. what services(process) must be running on the HP box so that i can open GUI using Cygwin.

2. Where can i get a VNC SERVER (or similar s/w) and install on the box so that I can open it thru a VNC client.

3. I see that box has CDE windows manager installed on that box (but donno how to find it is running or not)

4. Are there any default utilities or windows that come with installation of Xserver or similar software when i can try opening from CYGWIN so that i can be sure that GUI is installed and working on the box.

Please Xcuse me for my STUPID question.. I'm clue less.

Eagerly waiting for ur replies..

Thanks a lot
Regards,
Leela

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Leela,

Its not a stupid question. 10 years ago, I had to call support to get this very qusetion answered.

# as root
/sbin/init.d/xfs start
vi /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

# change the first variable to 1.

This should provide the CDE desktop.

SEP

[leela-india]

Hi SEP,
Thanks alot for the reply..

I can't access that box physically. I have to access it remotely, in that how can i see the GUI of the box?

It is very nice to be in a good community where people are willing to help the needy..

Regards,
Leela

[spex]

Hi Leela,

1) '/usr/bin/X11/xfs' must be running

2) Pre-compiled binaries available here:
http://www.csun.edu/~swalton/VNC/

3) # UNIX95= ps -C dtlogin -o pid=
'dtlogin' is the login service for CDE. If the above command returns anything, then CDE is running. 'man 1 dtlogin' for more information.

4) 'xclock' and 'xterm' come to mind.

If you enable X-forwarding for your ssh session via 'ssh -X -l ', then you don't have to worry about setting the remote $DISPLAY environmental variable.

By the way, I used to use Cygwin/X as my X-Server, but have since switched to Xming.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

PCS

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Firewalls commonly block the ports needed for X Windows.

To follow my recommendations you need to connec to the box with telnet or ssh. Then you should try a direct connect using X windows software from windows.

I really think the whole thing is due to the xfs not running. By default it installs to not run.

SEP

[spex]

Hi (again),

If you have XDMCP running on your HP-UX box (enabled by default), you can also run the remote display manager (instead of specific programs) on your local X-server. This is similar to a VNC server/client setup.

user@cygwin ~
$ X -query

PCS