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From: frans@phcisa.UUCP (Francois Staes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: setenv DISPLAY automatically
Summary: Maybe a solution ?
Message-ID: <1248@phcisa.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 11:53:01 GMT
References: <9011112317.AA21302@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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A simple solution might be to use

rsh <HOST> -n /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display $DISPLAY

This causes the DISPLAY variable to contain the right value, even in the
child process of the xterm. (See man page of xterm)

One problem left: you have to change the initial value of your DISPLAY
variable from unix:0 to <your_hostname>:0. Is there any way that
xinit sets the initial DISPLAY variable to <hostname>:0 instead of unix:0 ?
Or does this cause any performance problems ?

Best greetings,

Francois Staes
Origin/Middleware
Eindhoven, The Netherlands.