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- From: yufan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Yufan Hu)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: setting DISPLAY env variable
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:40:11 GMT
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- In article 1h4bp2INNi8u@sol.deakin.OZ.AU, rns@deakin.OZ.AU (Robert Sturrock) writes:
- >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
-
-
- Try the "xon" command comes with X11R5. It does everything like
- this for you. And it is only a small shell script.
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