I see; hm hm; I'll store that, and perhaps use it
at a later point, but currently the solution I have
looks alright to me.
thanks!
Oliver
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:35:12PM +0200, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> 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