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Operating Systems Solaris Can't make 'set DISPLAY' to work Post 302200494 by spufi on Thursday 29th of May 2008 09:49:54 AM
Old 05-29-2008
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Originally Posted by seg
Forgive my morbid curiosity but why are you using Xwindows?
Seconded. If you have a putty ssh-session open, why bother pushing a dtterm/xterm/whatever term anyway? Putty does exactly the same - and a lot more - than any standard term?

Anyway, Putty isn't an X server: you need a combination of an x11-forwarding capable ssh client (like putty) combined with a win32 X server (like as Grippo mentionned Exceed) to be able to get "graphical" stuff from your unix box displayed locally. Thus to conclude, without an X server, it's impossible to get xterm to run on your desktop.

Cygwin also contains an X server (xfree86 iirc) btw, so that might be an option for you? (although in that case the thing about why push a remote console if you have a local xterm/terminal anyway)

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RESIZE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 RESIZE(1)

NAME
resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size SYNOPSIS
resize [ -u | -c ] [ -s [ row col ] ] DESCRIPTION
Resize prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the follow- ing alias could be defined in the user's .cshrc: % alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`' After resizing the window, the user would type: % rs Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that don't have command functions will need to send the output to a tempo- rary file and the read it back in with the ``.'' command: $ resize > /tmp/out $ . /tmp/out OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize: -u This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/sh. -c This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/csh. -s [rows columns] This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the VT100-style xterm escape codes. If rows and columns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change. Note that the Sun console escape sequences are recognized by XFree86 xterm and by dtterm. The resize program may be installed as sunsize, which causes makes it assume the -s option. The rows and columns arguments must appear last; though they are normally associated with the -s option, they are parsed sepa- rately. FILES
/etc/termcap for the base termcap entry to modify. ~/.cshrc user's alias for the command. SEE ALSO
csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1) AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley) Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium See X(7x) for a complete copyright notice. XFree86 Version Version 4.3.0 RESIZE(1)
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