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- From: rns@deakin.OZ.AU (Robert Sturrock)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: setting DISPLAY env variable
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:02:42 +1100
- Organization: Deakin University
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- Message-ID: <1h4bp2INNi8u@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
- References: <1gmgnoINN4bu@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> <BzCzvA.42s@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore) writes:
-
- >Try using "xterm -display wkstn:0" instead of depending on the
- >DISPLAY environment variable. There are scripts around that
- >will do an rsh and allow you to do the above command without
- >explicitly logging into the machine. We have setup window
- >manager menus with pulldowns to do just this and popup
- >a remote window.
-
- I don't think this solves the problem. My difficulty is not starting
- up an xterm. My problem is logging into a remote machine and having the
- DISPLAY variable appropriately set on this machine to "wkstn:0.0".
-
-
- Rob
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