On Thursday, January 06, 2011 01:24:39 pm you wrote:
> The "echo $DISPLAY" shows localhost:10.0.
>
> Whatever that means
I think that's correct; it's what SSH sets it to for me.
The X-Windows DISPLAY specification consists of three parts,
"hostname:display.screen". This refers to the pseudo-X-display created by SSH
so it can send the data to your system via its encrypted tunnel. The hostname
is "localhost" meaning the remote machine where SSH is listening; the display
number is "10" because SSH starts numbering there so it is unlikely to
conflict with an existing display on the remote system; and the screen number
is "0" meaning the first screen within that pseudo-display. If you really
want more info on this, do "man X" and read the "DISPLAY NAMES" section. But
you've probably heard enough. :-)
Well, I'm out of ideas on this one. Sorry!
- MacK.
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