Xwatchwin

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Has anyone tried (successfully) to run xwatchwin on hp-ux 11.00.
It keeps on giving me the error "Could not find the window you specified." even whe I select root as the window to watch, all security is off (xhost).

This is used for a remote training - not for spying btw! - and I don't have SharedX installed,
I'm currectly working around with xwd, gzip, rcp, gunzip and xwud combinations! anyway...

Another program on the hpux.cs.utah.edu porting archive that I've only suceeded on getting to work on a NATIVE 712 (10.20) Xserver is dice. it craps out with "
# /home/trsh/dice
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Serial number of failed request: 60
Current serial number in output stream: 61
"
when running on latest patched 11.00, displaying to RX 8.05.

Any help appreciated. (I have tried compiling source too with no luck on resulting binary)

Later,
Bill

[Alex Glennie]

No Dice ..... ;)

Just downloaded dice a few mins ago , failed on 11.00 J6700 w/s with default visual set to Truecolor with the same error but if I export display to 11.i system and set visual to Pseudo color it works : I suspect this is your problem since RX and similar visual options.

now the technical explanation ...The problem is that the visual returned by XGetVisualInfo is in the imageplanes. The default colormap is in the overlay planes. These conditions
create the BadMatch error. Give it a go .....

I'll trry Xwatchwin but beaware there's another free tool out there that's similar to SharedX -> http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B7580AA

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

okay, dice works fine when I set winders to 256 colors - is there not an easier way to do it!?

Waiting for yer next reply!

Thanks,
Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I've just installed that software your linked - seems like I need to run native X though? I don't have a graphic display on these boxes.

Later,
Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I rebooted the boxes an can share whiteboards, but cannot share hpterms.

I'm logged on to ils.americas -> Bill McNAMARA

Seems it don't like RX.. (I've XDMCP'd direct)

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Agreed Vis Conference needs an Xdisplay ... as to xwatchwin .... fails same as yours .... I'm using the hex string for the window identifier so can't figure with the documetation available why this occurs unless it's down to visuals again .... according to /opt/xwatchwin/doc/README this shouldn't be the case .... sorry Bill .

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

That's okay - don't think it's visuals though, It's still not working in 256 colors. (when dice does)

I suppose I can get a B or a C for the hpvc..

Later,
Bill

[Wodisch]

Hi Bill,

why don't you simply use VNC?
And all the viewers in "shared" mode?

Just my $0.00000002,
Wodisch

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

the reason I'm trying to avoid realtime screen updaters is mainly because of network lag - I'm doing a remote training, Europe to States and ping times are horrible.

xwatchwin, xwud etc - can be confiugred for screen updates timeouts..

Later,
Bill