[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Remote X client troubles

[Genady <genady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had problems running it using exceed 7.
It turned out to be problematic (use of ?) exceed extension by the swt
(I got error "pixmap size 0" or something similar).
See if you can disable some X extensions / upgrade them/the server.

Genady

Peter Manahan wrote:

> I run remotely all the time. On other linux boxes as well as on my laptop
> using exceed.
> I've done this with V1 i forget if i tried it with any V2 builds . Which are
> you using?  Possible the content of the exception being
> thrown may shed some light on this. Could you post it?
>
> Peter
>
> Rob Walker wrote:
>
> > I'm running eclipse on a Red Hat Linux 7.1 platform.  When I do so
> > locally, no
> > problems.  However, if I attempt to run it from a remote X client, it
> > throws
> > an exception during launch and freezes.  I've encountered the same problem
> > when
> > the remote client is either a Solaris platform, or a PC running Xwin32.  A
> > colleague here has experienced the same problem, with an earlier release
> > of
> > eclipse.
> >
> > Anyone else been successful at this?
> >
> > Thanks.