On Saturday, 24 November 2018 9:12:26 AM AEDT Mark Hahn wrote: > I think it makes sense. Traditionally, DISPLAY=:0 means "the X server on > the machine where the client is running". You can trivally > export DISPLAY=`hostname`$DISPLAY > and Slurm will be happy, won't it? IE, you have given it an actual > network-aware DISPLAY setting.
Slurm will be happy, but your X server may not be... chris@quad:~$ echo $DISPLAY :0 chris@quad:~$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0 chris@quad:~$ xterm xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0 So you'll need to add an xauth cookie for that trick to work. > But isn't the case being discussed where the submit host actually is > running an X server, and also on the same (trusted/routable) network > as the compute node? > > In which case you don't want Slurm doing anything at all. Just let the > X client read DISPLAY from the environment propagated by Slurm. Yes, but see above. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
