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Using Remote Display
Figure 41: Session Profiles
If you make changes to the data in a text field, the Client automatically
changes the information in the profile. If this is not what you want, click on
the “Create” icon. The client then displays a dialog box into which you can
type a new session profile name. The Client will write this existing data into
a new profile instead of saving it to the original profile.
Sharing Profiles
Here’s how you share a profile with others:
1 Select a profile.
2 Export it to a file.
3 Let others know what it is called and where it is located. They can then
import the file after starting their own Remote Display setting.
Remote Display Server and Viewer
The Remote Display Server is started by the Client on the remote host. It
also creates a virtual window on the remote host. The Server than sends
the virtual window to the Viewer window running on your system. The
Viewer is just another window running on the Client’s system. You can interact
with the Viewer window in the same way you interact with any window
that runs directly on your system.
Behind the scenes, your interactions are sent to the Server, and the Server
interacts with the virtual window running on the remote host. Changes
made by this interaction are sent to the Viewer on your system. Performance
depends on the load on the remote host and network latency.
The server looks for (in order) the following window managers on the
remote host:
� icewm
� fvwm
� twm
� mwm
If you want to use another window manager or ensure a window manger is
invoked first, use the -wm window_manager_name in the Arguments for
TotalView (or Arguments for MemoryScape) text field. If you do this, the
path of the window manager must be named in your PATH environment
variable.
If you need to specify a font path on your remote host, use the -fp pathname
in the Arguments for TotalView (or Arguments for MemoryScape) text field.
42 Chapter 3: Getting Started with Remote Display Client