topic Re: DISPLAY variable settings in Operating System - HP-UX

DISPLAY variable settings

Kamel Abada_2 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:20:59 GMT

Hi,

one of my customers is trying to run an oracle 11i report in a browser from a windows pc . The application is running on an HP 9000 superdome partition running HP-UX 11i.The report contains graphics which means that the xserver needs to be running on the server.

What are the settings for the DISPLAY variable?

Is the use of a third party program like reflection X mandatory?

Many thanks

Re: DISPLAY variable settings

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:34:05 GMT

Hi:

Your PC must have some variation of an X emulator running. Reflection/X or eXceed are excellent candidates.

Set the DISPLAY variable to the IP address of the workstation and export it (Posix shell syntax shown) like this:

# export DISPLAY=n.n.n.n:0.0

You can test your configuration with 'xclock'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: DISPLAY variable settings

Peter Godron — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:01:30 GMT

Kamel,
please have a read of these threads:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1026585
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=996209
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=194483

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward useful answers.

Re: DISPLAY variable settings

Yogeeraj_1 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:00:58 GMT

hi Kamel,

XVFB is the appropriate solution to your problem.

for more info see: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1091623

You may also search this forum for more help. This issue has already been discussed several times.

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: DISPLAY variable settings

Mancboy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:37:46 GMT

Hi,
instead of messing about with X on the desktop, it would be better to use X on the server.
Try downloading VNC and running that on the server. By runnning VNC on the server, anybody can any X windows application directly on the server without the need for any slow add-ons to the PC. All you have to do is run vncserevr and the log file tells you what port number to connect to, for your private VNC / X session.

thanks