On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> I believe earlier he had stated he was manually setting the DISPLAY
> variable.
Well, I did say that but in actuallity it gets passed to the remote system
by telnet. I was simply trying to convey that my display was set to what
ssh sets it up as. So in that regard, I would have thought it would work
too.
> of how you initiated the shell.. Usually, in the case of xterm, this variable
> is transparent to the end user, simply becouse xterm sets it up itself..
This actually, is not true. When you log in to an X system at the console
(or use startx), the X server, or more probably [xgk]dm (or startx) sets
the DISPLAY variable for you. Processes that get started from your X
session then inherit the DISPLAY variable. If you were to then rlogin to
another system, you would not be able to run xterm without setting your
display.
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-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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