[ale] rsh of gimp

[John M. Mills]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

> I've got two boxes networked together. I use one monitor and rsh
> processes from the machine without a monitor.  Works fine with netscape
> terms and other things.  When I attempt to rsh gimp, I get a message "**
> WARNING **: cannot open display:"
> 
> I can fire up an xterm via rsh and then fire up gimp from that xterm and
> it starts fine.
> 
> Is gimp somehow braindead or what??


What is the DISPLAY env on the host which is exporting 'gimp'?

Also, what authorization are your using? (I use lowly 'xhost'.)
(but that's presumably OK re: runing the XTerm.)

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