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From: rajeshg@diamond.tamu.edu (Rajesh Godbole)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-windows DISPLAY environment variable
Keywords: DISPLAY
Message-ID: <6326@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 3 Jul 90 20:45:14 GMT
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In article <331@ge1cbx.UUCP>, gerald@ge1cbx.UUCP (Gerald Aden) writes:
|> I am trying to figure out a way to automatically resolve
|> and set the DISPLAY environment variable when someone logs  
|> into one of our systems from X-terminals using telnet and rlogin.
|> I know that there must be some way to resolve the IP name or address
|> of someone who is logging into a system. Can anyone think of a way to 
|> do this such that it could be incorporated a part of the login process
|> (i.e. put in .login or .profile). 
|> 


try this:

alias set_display 'set t=`finger -s $USER`;setenv DISPLAY `echo $t[13]`:0.0'
set q=`finger -s $USER | grep co`
if ($q == "") eval set_display >>& /dev/null

i put this in my login file, it sets the DISPLAY variable to
`logged-on-from`:0.0
if you're not logged on to the console of your machine.  


Rajesh Godbole,				|  preferred: rajeshg@diamond.tamu.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering.	|  otherwise: godbole@eemips.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University, College Station.	|  (409) 696-9528.
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