Re: [Queue-developers] X11 problem

[QingLong <qin...@Bo...>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:38:07AM +0100, Kai Harrekilde-Petersen wrote:
>
> I have a slight problem with the queue-developer version.
>
   Excuse me if I have missed it, but
 what version did you use? Did you try to run it (queued and queue)
 with --verbose and/or --debug flags? Did you notice something abnormal
 in those logs?

>
> I am unable to run Model Technology's "vsim" (a commercial VHDL
> simulator) in GUI mode, while using queue.  In other words,
> if I say "queue -w -i --full-pty -- vsim", vsim will run in tty mode.
>
   Have `vsim' got some command line option to force it running in tty mode,
 X-window mode? If it has no such flag, then how does it decide what mode
 to run in? Does it just look for DEISPLAY set? Or some private magic?

>
> I believe that I have successfully run vsim in GUI mode with
> "queue -w -i --full-pty -- vsim" in the past.  Unfortunately, I
> don't have any hard evidence.
>
   Can you recall the version of that queue that had managed to do it right?

>
> Doing strace on vsim with and without queue only turns up that
> stderr is not seekable when using queue.
>
   And how about stdout? Is it seekable? Hmmm, I believe it shouldn't be.

      QingLong.