Subject: Re: MoL on remote linux box
From: Robert Neugebauer (rneugeba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 06:53:25 MST
On a remote machine, there would be no way to run it in console mode.
mol wouldn't have access to the console for a remote machine, and even if
it did, standard unix dumb terminals don't even have a console mode. The
dumb terminals at my university boot of off network servers, and they boot
X. Thus I mol were able to boot into console mode on remote machine, it
would appear in the server room, not where I was.
I don't remember if I explained why you want to disable console mode in
your molrc. One problem that I had was that teh remote X didn't like the
resolution that I ran mol in. Thus is would start on the X server, but
instead would start on full screen mode on my local machine. I would then
need to kill mol in order to be able to end the ssh session. This led to a
few problems with my MacOS startup drive, so I changed the config to
ensure that if it couldn't bring up a window in X, it wouldn't start
MacOS.
Bob
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Robert Neugebauer wrote:
>
> > I have got this working. I ssh into my home computer from my school, and
> > have been able to start mol. The problems I initially had, was that the
> > X-Servers at school didn't like the resolution that I ran mol in a home.
> > Thus, I had to downgrade from 32-bit colour to 15 and 1152x870 to
> > 1024x768. From your molrc you might also want to change
> > enable_console_video to no. So that if it can't start under x, it won't
> > start.
>
> Does this mean that I have to run MoL within a Window? Is there no way
> to run it on a console?
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