Setting Up the pdm Pad Monitor

Pad Monitor is available on deneb, rncsv1, rncus1 and spica.lbl.gov, via Staf. Permissions must be set on scaup to allow netfeed connections from other machines--contact Susanna Jacobson.

To set up Pad Monitor:

1. Bring up a terminal window (right mouse button menu).
2. Type setenv DISPLAY <your location> . Be sure to enable other hosts with xhost + in the console window. (The DISPLAY variable is set automatically on spica.)
3. From any directory, type pdm_win. This will set some environment variables and bring up Staf. Set the Workstation type to 0 (unless you anticipate making other plots directly from Staf.
4. From inside Staf, type exec pdm .
5. When prompted, enter the data source: 0 (for netfeed0), 1 (for netfeed1), or a filename (including path, if necessary).
6. Select the appropriate geometry definition: 4 for any current-generation data. Pad Monitor should now pop up.
7. If Pad Monitor cannot allocate enough colors from the default colormap, it will create a virtual colormap, resulting in some annoying ``color flashing.''

Written: October 7, 1996 by Nathan Stone
Last modified: May 25, 1997 by Susanna Jacobson and R.Bossingham

Page maintenance:

Roy Bossingham, LBNL
RRBossingham@lbl.gov