Re: meld does not honor $DISPLAY?



I often use meld remote, but always through ssh tunneling. So I guess
meld picks up the environment DISPLAY variable just fine.

I would like to be able to open remote files using meld locally, over
ssh, like you can do with gnome-vfs.

Cya,
Hylke

Stephen Kennedy wrote:
> Does anybody else use meld remotely?
> I tried with xnest and it worked perfectly.
> 
> On 9/26/06, Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org> wrote:
>> That is strange, meld does not use $DISPLAY directly, but I would have
>> expected that gtk would use it. Can you use gdb/pydb/printf to see
>> what is happening and where it stalls?
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> On 9/25/06, Gardner Pomper <gardner networknow org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just got meld and it looks great. I am having just one problem. Normally, I
>>> have my DISPLAY set to an X server on a different machine than I am running
>>> meld on. When I do that, nothing shows up (meld appears hung). I have tried
>>> running it from an xterm on the remote system, and also with the -display
>>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx command line switch.
>>>
>>> It runs fine when I run it locally.
>>>
>>> I am running meld on linux. My xservers are on windows machines running
>>> cygwin.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> - Gardner


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