Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!UUNET.UU.NET!mike%aleytys From: mike%aleytys@UUNET.UU.NET (Michael Kent) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: rlogin and the DISPLAY variable Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 90 03:12:04 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 I appologize if this is a FAQ, but: I need to rlogin to a remote X Workstation from my local X Workstation, and have the DISPLAY environmental variable properly set so that any X apps I run on the remote machine will display on my local machine. The setting of DISPLAY must happen without operator intervention, and must be correct no matter which of several local machines rlogin to the remote machine. Using the remote shell command is out, since the primary app to be run on the remote machine is interactive in the manner of 'vi', and is a 'tty'-based app which is best run via rlogin. Having the user's profile set DISPLAY is out, as the user can be logging in from several different local machines. Any ideas? -- Michael Kent INTERNET: mike@aleytys.uu.net Center for M.C.E. UUCP: ...!{uunet, uflorida}!aleytys!mike 2521 N.W. 57th Pl MA BELL: +1-904-335-1573 Gainesville, Fl 32606 "...yes, we have no bananas..."