Bingo! That got it Mike. And note the spacing of the command (for others following this thread). It has to be "nautilus --display<space>:1" Writing it any other way doesn't work.
Thanks, Mike. And it is interesting that Nautilus does this and other programs don't (or at least the ones I've tested so far). Roger At 10:22 AM 3/25/2002, you wrote: >On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:03:12AM -0800, Roger Williams wrote: > > Mike, I couldn't make this do anything for me, but I did find that > > though Nautilus didn't show in the VNC window (display :1) it did show > > up on the console (ie. display :0). Now I need to see how to get it to > > show up on the VNC display :x, whatever that happens to be. Every > > other program I have tried seem to know what display they should run > > on. > >You _should_ be able to force nautilus to display on :1 with: > > nautilus --display :1 > >The other applications which automatically choose the right display are >probably checking the DISPLAY environment variable which you can check >with: > > echo $DISPLAY > >Nautilus might be ignoring this for some reason, but I don't know why. > >-- >Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor >Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: >'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY >See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html >--------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
