On 15 June 2010 08:18, Gregor Best <gbe_AT_ring0.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:50:40PM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote:
>> [...]
>> That > *is* somewhat unusual
>> [...]
>
> Where exactly is the difference between running
>
> DISPLAY=foo:0.0 bar
>
> on a remote machine via ssh as opposed to running the very same command
> from an xterm on the remote machine?
There won't be a difference. The client will attempt to connect to the
X server on port 6000 on host foo in both cases.
A difference would be if you would omit the DISPLAY setting, then it
would connect to the X forwarded port presumably.
Kind regards,
Anselm
Received on Tue Jun 15 2010 - 07:35:24 UTC
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