Re: imagej DISPLAY environment

Posted by Colin Poczatek on Feb 24, 2009; 7:19pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/imagej-DISPLAY-environment-tp3693576p3693578.html

I think Woody and Philip are both right
I haven't tried this but VNC might be the easiest solution.

Turn on "Desktop Sharing" (VNC) on 10.4 and up.
http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/05/14/a-vnc-server-is-included-in-mac-os-x-104/

Chicken of the VNC (VNC client).  Which I've used to VNC to linux boxes
and it works well.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/


Jeffrey B. Woodward wrote:

> 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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