running xemacs remotely

running xemacs remotely

[Wenbin Meng]

Hi,

I am pretty new to linux so some of these questions are kind noobish.

I am trying to run xemacs from my home computer running mandriva LE 2005. 
First I tried telnet into sun4 and run xemacs, it gave this error:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 146
when I run echo $DISPLAY it gave this:
localhost:0.0

Then I tried ssh and ran xemacs, that actually worked, but xemacs ran with a 
sluggish performance, most operations took a second or 2 to respond.

so how do I run xemacs remotely with just telnet? will that improve its 
performance? or any other suggestions on how to accomplish my task?

thanks

Wenbin

Re: running xemacs remotely

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.02.2006 um 19:46 schrieb Wenbin Meng:

> when I run echo $DISPLAY it gave this:
> localhost:0.0

That's the "localhost" at the remote sun4. You need to make DISPLAY  
point to your Mandriva box, DISPLAY could be 123.45.67.89:0 ...

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Re: running xemacs remotely

[jimmij]

Wenbin Meng <wenbinm@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I am trying to run xemacs from my home computer running mandriva LE 2005. 
> First I tried telnet into sun4 and run xemacs, it gave this error:
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 146
> when I run echo $DISPLAY it gave this:
> localhost:0.0
>
> Then I tried ssh and ran xemacs, that actually worked, but xemacs ran with a 
> sluggish performance, most operations took a second or 2 to respond.
>
> so how do I run xemacs remotely with just telnet? will that improve its 
> performance? or any other suggestions on how to accomplish my task?

I suggest you to run locally xemacs and use tramp to open remotely files.

Here you can read about tramp:
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/tramp.html

Greetings,
-- 
jimmij