From: hemo@UJOINT.remove-cxf-this

To: Rampage
Re: YouTube Video
By: Rampage to Grease on Thu Apr 02 2020 06:23 am

deity knows i've 'locked' my system several times trying to do something in/with dosemu and i've done something wrong... worst is when i forget that i'm ssh'd in and try to use my dosemu command prompt from sbbs to run some door setup/config program... i usually have to terminate the session and use another terminal to telnet in and go that route instead... i'm not sure if it is because my ssh terminal window is 266x70 or if it is because i'm using ssh but whatever it is, it stops me cold and the session simply stops responding...

One time I recall discovering what was happening when I encountered off 'disconnects' when trying to run dosemu via ssh. I was ssh in, but could see my remote system in a remote desktop session, when I fired up dosemu from the ssh, I saw the dosemu
window appear on the console X display. If you have the X system installed, dosemu might be firing up and displaying to the local X system. Once I knew what was happening, I could actullay enter the keypresses in the ssh session and see them take effect
on the dosemu window that I could not see.

try 'unset DISPLAY' prior to firing up dosemu and it basically forces dosemu to use text/console instead of SDL/X

... Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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From: mark.lewis@1:3634/12.remove-817-this

To: Hemo
Re: dosemu [was Youtube Video]
By: Hemo to Rampage on Thu Apr 02 2020 12:43:43


Hemo> encountered off 'disconnects' when trying to run dosemu via ssh.
Hemo> I was ssh in, but could see my remote system in a remote desktop
Hemo> session, when I fired up dosemu from the ssh, I saw the dosemu
Hemo> window appear on the console X display. If you have the X system
Hemo> installed, dosemu might be firing up and displaying to the local
Hemo> X system.

interesting... unfortunately my system, sestar, runs in a KVM/QEMU VM on ubuntu server so there's no X at all... only command line... there shouldn't be any X libs installed, either...

Hemo> Once I knew what was happening, I could actullay enter the
Hemo> keypresses in the ssh session and see them take effect on the
Hemo> dosemu window that I could not see.

the funny thing is that while i do use X on my main station, it is only as a "task switcher" in that i mostly open CLI windows even though i do have numerous GUI apps that i use... i wonder if my command line ssh into sbbs is doing something weird in that respect? i actually ssh in to both, sbbs and the command line... sbbs for doing the BBS stuff and handling the sbbs DOSemu stuff... command line for monitoring the BBS logs and doing work behind the scenes... while i have run DOSemu over ssh, i've not done that regularly and haven't had any problems when i have but that's also using my user's DOSemu which is separate from sbbs' DOSemu...


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