Re: [Update REQ 6079]: -nopanels bug?

[matthieu at tigger.cs.colorado.edu]

>From: Stuart Levy <slevy>
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:40:35 -0600
>Message-Id: <199701201840.MAA16325 at euclid.geom.umn.edu>
>To: software@geom.umn.edu
>Subject: Re:  [ REQ 6079]: -nopanels bug?
>
>Alas, yes, Geomview does need to be able to attach to some X display
>just to initialize its user interface, even if it's never displayed.
>This could be changed, but it's a bit awkward.  Depending how your
>X server is set up, this may or may not be a problem.  The X servers
>on our machines allow connections from localhost, even if no one is
>logged in.  If you use xdm, I think you can tell it not to "grabServer",
>which it does by default.

I've checked out the grabServer configuration and it doesn't look like
this would help. We need Geomview to be able to run on machines in
which we are not logged into the console and we must assume that we
have no permissions to grab the console since someone else could be
logged in. Perhaps you could give me a pointer to the location of the
Geomview source in which the code for this UI initialization resides?
How awkward is the change? Thanks for your help!

 -Ray