Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com> writes: > >|> How can I arrange that DISPLAY is set properly whenever I ssh remotely > >|> to a particular system? DISPLAY is not the only thing that you need to set. There are many other environment variables that you need for proper freedesktop.org desktop (e.g. DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, XDG_DATA_DIRS etc.).