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display

Directs the new G2 process to display its window on a platform running an X Windows server.

Platforms

All platforms except Windows.

Syntax

To route the display to a platform via a TCP/IP network connection:

-display machine-name:server-number.screen-number

To route the display to a platform via a DECnet network connection:

-display machine-name::server-number.screen-number

machine-name: Identifier of a machine running an X Windows server that communicates via a TCP/IP or DECnet network connection.

server-number: Identifier of an X Windows server process on machine-name.

screen-number: Identifier of an X Windows virtual screen managed by X Windows server process server-number on machine-name.

Equivalent Environment Variable

DISPLAY

The DISPLAY environment variable for most window managers is usually configured, by default, to be "local host", server 0, screen 0. See your X Windows documentation for more information.

Description

This option allows you to display a G2 process's window on a specific machine that runs an X Windows server, specified by its machine-name. (machine-name must already be assigned for each machine connecting to a network using TCP/IP or DECnet transport protocol.)

If you omit machine-name, G2 assumes the local node is the destination. If you omit screen-number, G2 assumes screen 0.

For more information see your platform's X Windows reference documentation.

Example

Except on VMS platforms, this command directs the new G2 process to display its window on the X Windows server 1, screen 1 running on machine mynode, reached via a TCP/IP network connection:

g2 -display mynode:1.1

Except on VMS platforms, this command directs the new G2 process to display its window on the X Windows server 0, screen 0 running on machine mynode, reached via a DECnet network connection:

g2 -display mynode::0.0

On VMS platforms, use the following commands to direct the new G2 process to display its window on the X Windows server 0, screen 0 running on machine mynode, reached via a TCP/IP network connection:

( After logging on the remote machine "yournode" ... ) 
$ set host mynode 
$ set display/create/node=mynode/transport=tcpip 
$ g2

In the example above, in the second command, omit /transport=tcpip for connections via DECnet.

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