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Uli Horn wrote: > > Hi > > I have an molecular modelling application developed by Accelrys called > insightII which runs on an SGI. > > I would like to view it remotely on a PC using the X Windows System. I have > tested it using eXceed 3D (MS Windows remote X Windows package) and it seems > to function properly but when I use either cygwin or Redhat Linux it gives > me an error "Couldn't get initial visual in app_init_display" where > app_init_display is an application function. Maybe the X server under cygwin or RH does not by default create the visual expected by the application. Did you compare the output of xdpyinfo between Exceed and RH? > > >From what I can see it uses Opengl and the glx libraries but the application > might also require Motif. ITIYM 'the Motif window manager'. That indeed is not a problem with Exceed, which *does* honor the WM properties used by the Motif shell widgets, and *is* likely to be a problem with RH, at least when using KDE, because the KDW window manager does not honor some of these properties. Eg a window supposed to be fixed-size with MWM will have effective resize handles with KDM. I have not yet found a way to deal with that specific issue even for applications of which I do have the source code! One problem has been that I have not yet found any Xt-based application that *is* non-resizeable under KDE. Ideas, anyone? I have not yet tried our Motif apps under a recent Cygwin so I cant say anything about cygwin. > > My questions are: > 1. If the XFree86 module is loaded does this mean that glx is also loaded? > 2. Is the Motif environment emulated? In view of the previous paragraph, could you clarify the question? > 3. What are the strategies to get to the nub of the problem? > > Regards > Uli -- Michel Bardiaux Peaktime Belgium S.A. Bd. du Souverain, 191 B-1160 Bruxelles Tel : +32 2 790.29.41