Xmanager and frame buffer

Owned by Support
May 11, 2018
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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Applications that require or use frame buffer are not accessible in Xmanager.



REASON

Frame buffer refers to the system's graphics hardware. Xmanager allows X applications to work through the network. Therefore, if the X app is using frame buffer directly, it will not work in Xmanager.



RESOLUTION

Programs that utilize frame buffer, cannot be outputed with Xmanager, so a different utility should be used in conjunction with Xmanager to send output.

For example, using xwd and xwud:

With the xwd utility, dump the console screen then with the xwud utility, you can see the output in Xmanager. Use the following commands:

# xwd -diaply :0 > dump.out
# xwud -in dump.out -display PC_IP_ADDRESS:0


In PC_IP_ADDRESS:0 shown above, the '0' represents the Xmanager display number. The display number may change depending on its configuration, therefore you must assign the currently running Xmanager's display number.