The machine name should be my windows 2000 machine right.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shridhar Daithankar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [LIH] VNC]
>
>
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Better than adding it to /etc/profile - $DISPLAY need be exported only
> when
> > you fire up a remote xterm, rather than just ssh / telnet into the
> machine.
>
> Well if it's a remote exterm, then it's good to set the display to machine
> name:0. Machine name can be obtained as last field of who -u. Something
> 'who
> -u|grep tty| cut -f<last fields>' should do the trick.
>
> From .profile of our HP machines..
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Thistty=`tty | sed 's:^/dev/::'`
> dis=`
> who -u |
> awk -v Thistty=$Thistty '$2 == Thistty {print $8}' |
> sed 's/:.*$//'
> `
> if [ -z "$dis" ]; then
> unset DISPLAY
> else
> export DISPLAY=$dis":0.0"
> fi
> echo "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY"
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
>
> This is bit lengthier than I expected but works. God knows who hacked
> this...
>
> >
> > --suresh
>
> Shridhar
>
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