[ale] launch programs over ssh into session?

[Jay Loden]

How do I set DISPLAY to 0:0 ?  

export DISPLAY=0:0 ?

-Jay

On Friday 19 November 2004 05:24 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jay Loden wrote:
> > I have some machines I have ssh access to (e.g. my mother's machine).
> > I was wondering if there is anyway I could, for example, do something
> > like launch a browser window (let's say konqueror, for example) and
> > have it show up in her session.
> >
> > I don't know much about how sessions are divided in Linux, so I'm not
> > sure how this works.  If I want to open a copy of AbiWord on my
> > mother's machine so she can see it launched, is there any way to do
> > that via ssh? (not vnc, I know how to do that)
>
> ssh -x momsmachine
>
> then in that xterm, set DISPLAY to :0.0 as it won't be set by ssh.  Now
> fire off the program.  I just tested this on two boxes I have here.