[ILUG] Automatically setting DISPLAY

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "JMD" == John Mc Donald <johnmcd at cs.may.ie> writes:

    JMD> I want to use ssh to forward X11 connections from a Linux
    JMD> box. When I ssh to the box the DISPLAY variable is not
    JMD> set. Is there a way of having this automagically set itself
    JMD> to the remote machines DISPLAY?

I just tried ssh -X to a Debian box from a Solaris box, and DISPLAY
was correctly set to localhost:10.0, which will forward to the X
server on the Solaris end.

Did you give the -X option?  I think you also need to enable X11
forwarding on the server side ("X11Forwarding yes").

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