Re: [foxboro] Sanity check on Go Global
- From: Ted Jirik <Ted.Jirik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:08:28 -0800
Tim,
Yes the ICC works exactly as it does on the local head. There are no resize
issues because VNC is running a second copy of the Open Look window manager
so the ICC removes the resize handles from the ICC window as well as any
other remote draw application's window. I don't have any problems with
missing buttons on a close/restore and save unders and backing store work
as expected.
I have not used this with FoxView but here is the setup for a Display Manager.
I am running the latest straight VNC for Solaris and have modified the Java
applet to allow access to the VNC session on the AW from a web browser.
This works very well too. I removed some of the buttons in the standard
Java applet to lock it down a bit for plant users.
The key for me was setting the Foxboro font path and also setting the
option '-cc 3' in the 'vncserver' script to force VNC to use PseudoColor
for proper operation of the blink task.
After that I modified the /.vnc/xstartup script to issue an xhost command
for my station and set the _FOX_WINMGR xprop. It then starts another Open
Look window manager and invokes a script to start the DM. The script starts
a blink task an execs a DM.
It is set up to run at boot time so the DM is always available. I have used
the stock VNC client and server as well as a variant named tightVNC which
has been modified to perform better on low bandwidth links such as dialup.
We have used this setup for about a year and it has worked well. It runs
slower across a LAN than a XServer running on a PC but it is faster across
dialup lines. We feel it provides an acceptable way to allow infrequent
users to access the system using a web browser or VNC client, and the price
is right.
Ted Jirik
Real Time Solutions, Inc.
Ted.Jirik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
At 05:21 AM 2/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Ted,
>
>Did you ever get the ICC to work with VNC? I installed VNC when we were
>having problems with GoGlobal and the ICC, and I never have been able to get
>the ICC to even start up with VNC. I'm not sure if the way we set up our
>FoxViews to work with GoGlobal is causing the problem or what, but I was
>hoping maybe you knew of some setting in the VNC configuration that would
>make ICC work. I haven't been able to find it.
>
>Tim Lowell
>Control Systems Engineer
>ConocoPhillips, Trainer Refinery
>Phone: 610-364-8362
>Fax: 610-364-8211
>Tim.C.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Jirik [SMTP:Ted.Jirik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:40 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Sanity check on Go Global
>
>
>
> I have used VNC on an AW, works great. Since you run another
>instance of
> Open Windows it supports remote draw applications. It also has
>options
> which allow pseudocolor in 8 bit mode which allows the blink task to
>run
> normally.
>
> Ted Jirik
> Real Time Solutions, Inc.
>
> At 04:50 PM 2/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >GoGlobal vs Exceed.... How about TridiaVNC?
> >
> >Has anybody tried using the free package TridiaVNC with Foxboro?
> >Does it work well over phone line connections?
> >
> >Mark Dumond
> >FeedForward, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] =
> >On
> >Behalf Of duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:15 PM
> >To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [foxboro] Sanity check on Go Global
> >
> >
> >
> >On Monday, February 17, 2003 4:07 PM, Johnson, Alex =
> ><ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >wrote:
> >
> > >If you buy the products from us, you get a manual that
> > >explains exactly how to configure everything and a
> > >diskette that makes the work simpler.
> >
> >Or you can check out Ron Deen's excellent write-up on how to set up
>the
> >different X applications, available for the price of a download at
>the
> >Cassandra web site:
> >
> > http://www.thecassandraproject.org/misc/xterm80.pdf
> >
> >Duc
> >
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