From: Harry Overs (hovers++at++dera.gov.uk)
Date: 03/04/2000 03:03:28
Thanks for your help, that works fine.
The only problem left is how to disable the screensaver on when the machines
is at the XDM login screen.
Any ideas ??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Schaffer" <allan++at++sgi.com>
To: "Harry Overs" <hovers++at++dera.gov.uk>; <info-performer++at++sgi.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: getting perfomer to run under xdm on linux rh6.1
> On Mar 3, 7:26pm, Harry Overs wrote:
> >
> > I have a machine ( biggles ) that is not logged in, and is sitting
> > at the XDM l ogin screen. I want to shell into that machine and run
> > perfly ( not really perfl y, but my app, but it will do for
> > demonstration ) remotely.
> >
> > However, if I do this
> >
> > yapper % rsh biggles
> > biggles % setenv DISPLAY :0.0
> > biggles % perfly fred.flt
> >
> > I get an xerror bat atom.
>
> Yep, this is a known bug --
> http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/linux-buglist.html#777886
>
> When run in full-screen mode, the pfWindow communicates with the
> window manager to have its window borders removed. This will fail if
> there is no window manager running (as in your case) or one that
> doesn't support the particular X atom we're interning (like twm).
>
> As a workaround, specify a window size smaller than the screen size:
> ie, 'perfly -W1020,760 fred.flt'.
>
> This will be fixed in the next release.
>
> Allan
>
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