Tech question
(sorry!)

Debian 4.0, running Gnome desktop.

How do I set a Gtkwindow? I receive an error message which reads:
"Gtk-WARNING : screen for Gtkwindow is not set; you must always set a screen for a Gtkwindow before using the window"

The quick search of Linux forums hasn't been too helpful. Anyone know any quick fixes?

EDIT: Never mind, just found another way round it!
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 11:42, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Bit more info pweeeeeeeese
Receive from where? Is this your code or a random program? If your code, got a snippet?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:02, Reply)

eh?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:03, Reply)

Sorry for being a bit vague
So: I've got my Debian box SSH'ed into the Red Hat machine at work. I'm trying to run a GUI program from this remote computer, so obviously I've used export display, to which it raised no objections.

Hmmm...update: I've done the export display command again, just to make sure I gave it the right address. Now, when I try to launch the program, I get no message at all. but no program either. I'll get back to you on this one...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Ah, righto...
If you export display, it'll make an Xwindows connection to that IP/display number.

Unless you've set up some fruity forwarding to/from your home machine, this prob wont work.

What you need to do is get SSH to set it up for you - give it a -X and it'll make an X listener on the machine you connect to and set the display environment for you. Then it'll just work, forwarding the X traffic down the pipe.

Have a look at the man page for SSH.

Bert, I want to make an SSH tunnel to your X window system and forward my script output through your encrypted pipe.

Edit: Out of the box, X wont be listening to remote IP traffic anyway, for security. So trying to do it using just DISPLAY and not ssh will never work.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 12:41, Reply)

Thanks for that!
ssh -X did the trick. I'd just got used to using export DISPLAY due to some funny set-up I've got at work where I'm ssh-ing in from Windows to the same Red Hat machine. But of course for that I've got to run an X server program alongside the SSH client, so that never cropped up as an issue before...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 13:58, Reply)

See, the problem's in your grub nuts.
It's all coming from your donkey flange. Yup, it's clogging up your St Elmo's pipe trench.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 18:21, Reply)