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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:50:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Satish Balay <balay AT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: GUI apps through ssh
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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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