Re: X-windows display of Mathematica graphics run remotely on Mac OS X machine
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- Subject: [mg43131] Re: X-windows display of Mathematica graphics run remotely on Mac OS X machine
- From: Lot-o-fun <lotofun at hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:07:47 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <bhd8ot$rls$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Eric L. Strobel <fyzycyst at comcast.net> wrote: > on 08/12/03 4:43 AM, Lot-o-fun at lotofun at hotmail.com wrote: > > > I have Mathematica 5.0 installed on Mac OS X from a CD. I know I can > > ssh to my machine and run Mathematica on the command-line using > > /Applications/Mathematica\ 5.0.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel. If the > > machine I'm ssh-ing from has X-windows capability and I use > > X-forwarding when I ssh, is it possible to have Mathematica display > > graphics? I poked a little around the documentation and various files, > > and it seems that to do this I need SystemFiles/Graphics/Motif.m and/or > > SystemFiles/Graphics/X11.m and motifps and probably more, none of which > > comes with the standard OS X distribution. I have Apple's X11 > > installed on the Mac OS X machine. Any ideas about how I can do this? > > > > Seems as if what you really want is an X11 front end. Then you do as > 'normal', i.e., fire up the local front end and have it talk to the kernel > on the Mac. Unless you're really wanting the Mac to be sending the > window/graphics info, i.e. run an X11 front end on the Mac but have it > display on the other machine. In that case, I'm completely clueless (though > my guess is that it can't be done that way). An X11 front end that runs on the Mac would be fine. Even better would be a way to display graphics only using X11, so that at any computer that has X11 capability, I could login remotely to the Mac and run Mathematica on the command line but not give up the graphics. -Lotofun