Re: [Evolution] Problem running evolution removtely with SSH

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Evolution gets it's DISPLAY environment from bonobo-activation-server
because the components get launched from it, not necessarily the shell
you are running the command from.

either that or you already have an evolution process running (you can't
run 2 instances)

(btw, it's not --DISPLAY, it's --display anyway)

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:20, Anton J Aylward wrote:
> I'm having a problem running evolution from my laptop through my
> firewall to my workstation using SSH.
>
> What happens is that when I invoke evolution it starts on the
> workstation, not on the X display on my laptop.  The laptop is running
> Knoppix, the workstation is running Mandrake 9.2, its Evolution 1.4.5.
>
> I've experimented and reduced this to components and tested each in
> step.  This is the "bottom line".
>
> I can run an xterm on the workstation, displayed on the laptop and from
> there execute various programs.  
>
> GIMP works as expected, displaying on the laptop, as do a number of
> other graphical tools such as eye of gnome, and the various gnome games.
> Even pysol works.  Acroread, the PDF viewer works. Mozilla works.  GVim
> works.  The system configuration tools such as linuxconf work. 
> OpenOffice works.
>
> But evolution doesn't.  It starts up on the workstation every time.
> This makes no sense.  Evolution NOT honouring the DISPLAY setting by
> default.  And yes, I've tried "evolution --DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" and that
> doesn't work either.
>
> I've experimented with the configuration and tried ssh to the firewall
> (and then to the workstation) instead of using it for port forwarding
> and get the same result.
>
> Obviously SSH and X-forwarding _IS_ working since I can get the the
> other programs to display correctly, including ones with gnome bindings.
>
> Suggestions?
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com