The .maxima_history file comes from rlwrap not maxima. You can define
the RLWRAP_HOME variable instead of redefining HOME.
Andrej
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Oliver Kullmann
<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ah, thanks, this solves my problem: I just put a symbolic link
> to ~/.Xauthority into that directory which I want to be my Maxima-home!
>
> As I explained in the other e-mail regarding this issue, maxima_userdir
> on the one hand seems not to be powerful enough (due to .maxima_history out
> of its control), and apparently can't be set early enough (that is,
> before accessing it!).
>
> And actually exactly the same problem occurred with my usage of R:
> R has a few more options influencing which files are read, but again
> this doesn't catch all cases, and re-defining HOME again solved that
> problem, except of plotting not working, and again the symbolic link
> did the job!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Oliver
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:13:56PM +0100, Leo Butler wrote:
>> ?bin> HOME=$(pwd) ./rmaxima
>> < ;;; Loading #P"/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/Installations/Ecl/9.4.1/lib/ecl-9.4.1/defsystem.fas"
>> < ;;; Loading #P"/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/Installations/Ecl/9.4.1/lib/ecl-9.4.1/cmp.fas"
>> < ;;; Loading #P"/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/Installations/Ecl/9.4.1/lib/ecl-9.4.1/sysfun.lsp"
>> < Maxima 5.18.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>> < Using Lisp ECL 9.4.1
>> < Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
>> < Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
>> < The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
>> < (%i1) plot2d(sin(x),[x,-5,5])$
>> < Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> < Xlib: No protocol specified
>> <
>> <
>> < gnuplot: unable to open display ':0'
>> < gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>> <
>> < (%i2) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> < Xlib: No protocol specified
>> <
>> <
>> < gnuplot: unable to open display ':0'
>> < gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>> <
>> < -----------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Oliver,
>> The pro/blem is that you have changed the shell variable HOME, and your
>> shell
>> is looking in $PWD for .Xauthority, the file that holds the permissions
>> to use your display. I do not understand why you need to change HOME.
>>
>> To test what I am saying, ?do the following in a new shell:
>>
>> plot2d(sin(x),[x,-%pi,%pi],[psfile,"sin.ps"]);
>>
>> You should not have any errors here.
>>
>> You mention that you needed to do someting with .maxima.
>> Perhaps that following from the man page is useful?
>>
>> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
>> ? ? ? ?MAXIMA_USERDIR
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Points to a directory for user customization files.
>> Maxima's default search paths include MAXIMA_USERDIR. Default value:
>> $HOME/.maxima.
>>
>> Leo
>>
>> <
>> wing in a new shell
>> < Just to mention, using "maxima" instead of "rmaxima" doesn't change anything.
>> <
>> < Could it then be that somehow gnuplot or whatever is involved
>> < determines the user through his home directory?
>> <
>> < Oliver
>> <
>> <
>> < On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:03:27PM +0100, Leo Butler wrote:
>> < >
>> < >
>> < > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
>> < >
>> < > < Hi,
>> < > <
>> < > < since in my research platform Maxima needs to run locally,
>> < > < without intrusion of the user space, I needed to do something
>> < > < w.r.t. the .maxima directory, and fortunately redefining the
>> < > < environment variable HOME when calling Maxima does the job!
>> < > <
>> < > < Alas, now I found out that gnuplot (version 4.2.4 or 4.2.5,
>> < > < but apparently this doesn't matter) doesn't work anymore:
>> < > <
>> < > < (%i1) plot2d(sin(x),[x,-5,5])$
>> < > < Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> < > < Xlib: No protocol specified
>> < > < gnuplot: unable to open display ':0'
>> < > < gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>> < >
>> < > Oliver,
>> < > This error message tells you that gnuplot is attempting to open display
>> < > :0, but your xserver is refusing it permission. I suspect that you are
>> < > running maxima in a terminal as a user other than the owner of the
>> < > display.
>> < >
>> < > If you are running maxima as user B, while user A owns the display, then
>> < > user A can enable B's access to the display via
>> < >
>> < > A$ xhost +local:B
>> < >
>> < > (possibly 'localhost', see the man page for xhost; 'A$' is the shell
>> < > prompt for A).
>> < >
>> < > If you are running maxima on a remote machine via ssh, then you need to
>> < > forward the xserver's port. This is done by adding the option '-X', e.g.
>> < >
>> < > ssh user at some.machine.org -X
>> < >
>> < > will open an ssh session for user on some.machine.org and the X
>> < > connection will be forwarded from the remote some.machine.org
>> < > to the local machine.
>> < >
>> < >
>> < > Leo
>> < >
>> < > --
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>> <
>> <
>> <
>>
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