[squeak-dev] Squeak/Seaside on a no-GUI remote host

John Chandler morph at growler.net
Sun Jul 6 17:58:04 UTC 2008


On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:32 PM, John Chandler <morph at growler.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> failed to set default font path ''
>> Fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Google is probably your friend :) Note that, as Josh mentions, Avi and
> I are talking about different packages.

Yes, I completely careened over the high side into no-clue canyon there.

>
>> [code snip]
>> Does this require a Squeak image running with some relationship to a
>> GUI, even if it's vnc and nobody's viewing it?  I guess there must  
>> be some
>> way to launch Squeak other than clicking on its icon, but, and I  
>> find this a
>> strange thing to say, I don't think I've ever done it any other way.
>
> No it does not, that's the whole purpose of it; to be able to update
> and launch stuff from a ssh session. The only reason I dont use
> -headless to launch it when updating is so if it gets stuck for some
> weird reason I can look at it, but its not required. You might as well
> run squeak -headless my.image
> -- 
> Ragnar

Thanks for this; I'd copy the list, but I think I've overdone it a  
bit there and
need to just lurk for a while.

-jmc




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