[ILUG] Automatically setting DISPLAY

[Dave Airlie]

if you have a DISPLAY variable set to somewhere sane when you ssh and X
forwarding is on your session on the other end should get a DISPLAY
variable of remotemachine:11 or something like that ..

Dave.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John Mc Donald wrote:

> I want to use ssh to forward X11 connections from a Linux box. When I
> ssh to the
> box the DISPLAY variable is not set. Is there a way of having this
> automagically
> set itself to the remote machines DISPLAY?
>
> I know Solaris does it (but I'm not sure how! :-)
>
> Thanks,
> John.
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