GUI apps through ssh

Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 1 17:50:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, artem_ave wrote:

> Thanks a lot, X11Forwarding worked just fine. The only thing is that default
> DISPLAY value is set 'solaris:10.0' which is not accessible. So I had to
> change it manually to 'localhost:10.0'. And it worked finally.
> How can I get the proper set by default?

ssh sets a DISPLAY variable on your solaris box [once the ssh
connection is established]. Mostlikely DISPLAY variable is modified
through some init file. [~/.cshrc or ~/.bashrc]

grep DISPLAY ~/.*

Satish

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