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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:48:50 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: launch x app from non-x tty?
Message-ID:  <20071119214733.M1919@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90711191011m53c57b7am64b6ece75403057a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <539c60b90711191011m53c57b7am64b6ece75403057a@mail.gmail.com>

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> Is there a way to log in from ssh and pop up a program on the local
> xterminal?  I tried, and got complaints that there was no x, so I
you mean local local display (local X server).

simply you have to

export DISPLAY=:0

before running.

must be the same user as logged locally.



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