Re: [Closed REQ 5588]: how to run geomview on remote machine

["Stuart Levy" <slevy>]

We don't have any way to make geomview automatically discover that
it can't talk to your display, but it can be done manually.

You'll need to fetch a copy of geomview which executes on an Iris, but
displays using generic X.  There's one up for anonymous FTP from geom.umn.edu
in  priv/slevy/gvx-sgi.X11.gz.  It's just a compressed executable, not a tar
package.  You might decompress it, mark it executable, and move the
result into the Geomview executable directory:
    gzip -d gvx-sgi.X11.gz
    chmod +x gvx-sgi.X11
    mv gvx-sgi.X11   whatever/Geomview/bin/sgi/gvx-sgi.X11

Then, edit the (/usr/local/bin/)geomview shell script, changing the
line which sets "GEOMVIEW_GVX".  Right now you can find a line in "geomview"
reading

: ${GEOMVIEW_GVX=${GEOMROOT}/bin/$MACHTYPE/gvx}

You might change that to

if [ -z "$GEOMVIEW_GVX" ]; then
    # Assume $DISPLAY beginning with ":" means we're sitting at the SGI console.    case "$DISPLAY" in
        :*) GEOMVIEW_GVX=${GEOMROOT}/bin/$MACHTYPE/gvx ;;
        *)  GEOMVIEW_GVX=${GEOMROOT}/bin/$MACHTYPE/gvx-sgi.X11 ;;
    esac
fi

I just did that here; it works fine.

One caveat:  the current X version of geomview doesn't work on one-bit-deep
(monochrome) displays!  It should work if you have a color X terminal, though.