[daip] AIPS on laptop

[Eric Greisen]

Gustaaf van Moorsel writes:
 > On my Windows laptop (nenya) I am running Linux under vmware
 > Under Linux, I remotely log on to imager-b where my data are,
 > and then proceed to run aips.  I can access the data, but the
 > TV and the graphics windows do not appear; in fact, at start-
 > up AIPS tells me it cannot open the display nenya-vml:0.

Does vmware actually run a legitimate X-Windows?  You want to run with
tv=local on imager-a and simply have the display set to nenya.  If I
were you I would experimet with some function like xclock with various
settings of the $DISPLAY variable to find out if this is possible.

Eric Greisen