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Jamal Asi
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Alternatives to CDE

I use reflections to establish x-window sessions on HP-UX 11.11.
With HP-UX 11.31, this is not working because CDE is not installed by default. If I do not want to install CDE, are there any alternatives that HP recommends? Or if you use something else that works and that you recommend to establish an x-windows connection to HP-UX 11.31?

Thanks.
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Tingli
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

It is not very clear of your question, but I think Xming might work for you.

Assuming you use Putty to connect to your server, you need to go to ssh -> X11 and set up "Enable X11 forwarding".

Start your Xming in your local work station.

ssh to your server and you can build an X session from your server to your local work station. The DISPLAY is already setup when you login to the server and you don't need to worry about it either.
Jamal Asi
Advisor

Re: Alternatives to CDE

I just want to establish an x-window session so I can install oracle and SAP.
Do I need to install Xming on the HP-UX server? where do I get XMING from?
thanks.
James R. Ferguson
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: Alternatives to CDE

Hi:

You install 'xming' on your PC. You get fetch it from here:

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

Regards!

...JRF...
Tingli
Esteemed Contributor

Re: Alternatives to CDE

You can down load xming from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

You only need to install it in your local work station, not in your hp-ux server.
OldSchool
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

"It is not very clear of your question, but I think Xming might work for you."

I didn't see anything unclear. XMing has nothing to do with it, as that's the PC end of things, and her already uses Reflections.

He said CDE doesn't install by default (which is true) and is looking for alternatives, as he doesn't want it install CDE.

At one time, HP had Gnome available (from Ximian I think), but noted it wasn't suitable for production / high availablity systems as it had limited support.

I suppose you could try porting Konqueror from source with Xfree or some such....

Or just install CDE. Not sure why the reluctance to do so?
Torsten.
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

If CDE isn't installed, install it.

Where is the problem?

Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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Alex Glennie
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

where was the problem : it was boring ;-)

http://docs.hp.com/en/GNOME/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN HP-UX 11i v1.6
OldSchool
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

Alex...that's the link where I found:

"Note: This release supports PA-RISC and Itanium-based systems running on of the following
operating system releases.

HP-UX 11.0

HP-UX 11i

HP-UX 11i v1.6

------followed by--------------------------

This release is intended to provide availability of Ximian GNOME 1.4 on HP-UX. This product is not supported, and therefore it is not recommended for mission-critical or production environments.

You should not expect the same level of stability and functionality that you would expect from a production release. Here are some points to keep in mind when evaluating this release of Ximian GNOME for HP-UX.


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CDE may be "boring", but at least it's supported. ;-)
Viktor Balogh
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Re: Alternatives to CDE

>I use reflections to establish x-window sessions on HP-UX 11.11.
>With HP-UX 11.31, this is not working because CDE is not installed by default.

You are speaking about two separate things. Either CDE or Reflection, these two are for the same purpose - to visualize graphic.

>If I do not want to install CDE, are there any alternatives that HP recommends?

For CDE, Gnome could be an alternative as others mentioned, but not for a productive environment.

>Or if you use something else that works and that you recommend to establish an x-windows connection to HP-UX 11.31?

For establishing an X _connection_ remotely you could use either

Reflection
or
putty with X-forwarding and Xming
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