How do I get Sco GUI desktop on my PC

Paul Wright

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Apr 10, 2001, 6:02:48 AM4/10/01

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Has anyone any ideas on how I can run the SCO OpenServer Release 5 GUI
desktop on my PC (NT 4). It would be nice to run rather that going all the
way to the server room. Scoadmin does all the jobs required I would admit,
but the GUI desktop is eaiser to navigate.

Any idea?

Paul Wright

Tony Lawrence

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Apr 10, 2001, 6:05:35 AM4/10/01

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You just need X on your PC. There are lots of commercial
choices, and freeware too.
http://cds3.dl.ac.uk/cds/xwindows.html lists a couple :-)

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Tom Parsons

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Apr 10, 2001, 7:28:51 AM4/10/01

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Paul Wright enscribed:

SCO's XVision works exceptionally well.
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Allan Clark

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Apr 10, 2001, 10:07:56 AM4/10/01

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Paul;

Call be biased, but I *do* like Webtop and Tarentella. No config on the
client side, just connect and go. Yes, some people at SCO actually use
SCO products :)

Using a Tarantella gateway and a PC at an internet cafe (read: "I was
not permitted to config the PC"), I have browsed our kernel source
inside the SCO firewall. As well, when I set up Point-of-Sale boxes
(The embedded toolkit lives on!) I actually connect to the Webtop on a
dev machine and use the DISPLAY= to show me the window. The GUI is
easier in some cases.

Don't get me wrong, I *am* a CLI guy when I can get one.

Allan

wvaughan

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Apr 11, 2001, 9:10:35 AM4/11/01

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Tony Lawrence wrote:
> Paul Wright wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone any ideas on how I can run the SCO OpenServer Release 5 GUI
> > desktop on my PC (NT 4). It would be nice to run rather that going all the
> > way to the server room. Scoadmin does all the jobs required I would admit,
> > but the GUI desktop is eaiser to navigate.
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> You just need X on your PC. There are lots of commercial
> choices, and freeware too.
> http://cds3.dl.ac.uk/cds/xwindows.html lists a couple :-)

Okay, i can get a xterm with
/usr/bin/X11/scoterm -display $(LOCALIP):0

Whats the magic command to get the desktop?

rob

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Apr 11, 2001, 1:00:06 PM4/11/01

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I don't get the $(LOCALIP):0 ??? Does this need to be started on server and
then accessed from client?

Greg M Lee

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Apr 11, 2001, 8:34:48 PM4/11/01

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/usr/bin/X11/xdt3 provides the "standard" desktop

rob

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Apr 12, 2001, 1:28:00 PM4/12/01

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/usr/bin/X11/xdt3 gives me a "cannot open display.#"
Do I set that somewhere?

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Jean-Pierre Radley

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Apr 12, 2001, 2:41:43 PM4/12/01

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rob propounded (on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:28:00PM +0000):

| /usr/bin/X11/xdt3 gives me a "cannot open display.#"
| Do I set that somewhere?

Please: you have to be in X before you try to run 'win'.
Once you're in X, DISPLAY will have been set for you.

xdt3 should come up all by itself if you have scologin enabled, or if
you go into X with startx.

Merge5 also provide 'fwin', which will start Windows in an X environment
by itself, from a character login, but won't give you a desktop.

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