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Re: imagej DISPLAY environment

Posted by Jeffrey B. Woodward on Feb 24, 2009; 6:53pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imagej-DISPLAY-environment-tp3693576p3693577.html

There was a posting about this near issue on the ImageJ mailing list not
too long ago. The short version of the answer is that Apple's native
Java *is not* an X-windows application but rather a native Apple
application that uses Aqua; Aqua can't be tunneled in this way (and
maybe it can't be tunneled at all, idk). There are alternate Java
distributes that you may consider; I know of no other workarounds short
of sharing the entire desktop from one system to another.

FYI: You may find it revealing to google for a few key search terms such
as: tunneling apple java display

Good luck,

-Woody


Lucy W Upchurch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are trying to run imagej on a remote computer (mac Leopard OS) and
> display the images on a local computer (another mac) via ssh.  I have set
> my environment variable to the local machine when I ssh to the remote
> machine.  I can do an XClock or Xeyes on the remote machine and it displays
> on the local machine.  However, if I run imageJ, my images are displayed on
> the remote computer, not my local machine.  I can not change the shell to
> anything else as tcsh is required for other scripts/programs.  Any ideas on
> how to get java to change the DISPLAY setting?  Thanks.
>
> Lucy
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