[Info-vax] Mapping a PC screen to DECWindows

[Wilm Boerhout]

DTL vaguely mentioned on 20-1-2009 7:41:
> Hi there, Happy Obamaers,
> 
> I run Personal Alpha emulator on a PC, running OpenVMS 7.2 (the Alpha,
> not the PC)
> 
> VMS TCTIP is 192.168.1.200
> PC is 192.168.1.11
> Emulator Interface is set to shared.
> 
> Everything works fine, thanks to all of you.
> 
> But one thing, I do not "remember" how to map my screen to DECwindows.
> 
> I started DECwindows
> I did a $ set display/create/transport=tcpip/node=192.168.1.11
> then when I start say Mozilla, it sez
> 
> Starting mozilla-bin...
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: _WSA0:
> 
> I do not remember  if I should run an X11 program on the PC.
> Thanks for your help. I'll write the HOWTO later.

Didier,

You need to run an X11 display server on your PC (Windows doesn't 
include one, although something like Ünix Extensions for Windows [?] may 
be downloaded from Msoft for some Windows versions). If you have access 
to Pathworks xCursion, that's fine. Xming or any other open source X11 
server will do as well.

/Wilm