[winswitch] DISPLAY

Bob Tennent rdtennent at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 22:22:58 GMT 2012


 >|> How can I arrange that DISPLAY is set properly whenever I ssh remotely
 >|> to a particular system? The documentation for ssh and sshd actively
 >|> discourage explicit setting of DISPLAY and apparently don't provide
 >|> any options to do so.
 >|I don't understand what you are trying to do by setting the DISPLAY?
 >|Is this to start an application on a given Xpra display?
 >|If so, this has nothing to do with ssh and cannot be avoided.

I was hoping to be able to "hide" 

DISPLAY=:100

in a config file or in a scriptable option.  But if it can't be avoided ...

Bob T.



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