[Info-vax] Decwindows display

[bradhamilton]

Bradford Hamilton wrote:
> In article <000da022$0$24681$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Bradford Hamilton wrote:
>>> I don't run X that often, but when I tried this morning, I noticed I didn't
>>> have a display:
>>>
>>> $ show display
>>> %DECW-W-OPENIN, error opening DECW$DISPLAY as input
>>> -SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available
>>
>> Sorry to hear about that. It is almost as bad for a guy as
>> -SYSTEM-F-NOPENIS, no such device available :-) :-) :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Is the logical DECW$IGNORE_WORKSTATION  set to anything ? This causes a
>> system to start the decw software but not the X terminal part.
>>
>> Also, remember that if you access the system via telnet, or decnet or
>> serial console or via lat, you don't get a DECW$DISPLAY created.
>>
>> make sure SYSGEN> WINDOW_SYSTEM is set to 1.
>>
>> Mak sure you have a graphic device:
>>
>> $ graphics_device = f$device("*","workstation","decw_output")
>>
>> (this is from DECW$DEVICE.COM )
> 
> Sorry for not including more explicit information - running X from Mac OS X to
> VMS, via ssh (ssh -x <node name>).

I see my mistake now...apologies...working fine...
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