Re: screen and DISPLAY environment variable

[Thomas Köhler]

Hi,

Adam M wrote:
[...]
> Now, the problem is when I close PuTTY and then later relaunch it and
> reattach to the running screen session. When I open a new SSH connection
> to my Linux box, that shell often has a different DISPLAY variable than
> previously. Therefore, in order for X forwarding to work from within
> screen, every single shell window (that needs X) must have its DISPLAY
> variable updated appropriately.

I have setup my shell's .login to do something like this:
   if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] ; then
      echo "Can't update X11 DISPLAY variable as \$DISPLAY is not set..."
   else
      echo "export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" > ~/.x11
   fi
and my precmd (executed each time a new prompt is being
displayed, bash uses something called prompt_command or similar
for this) looks similar to
   if [ -f "$HOME/.x11" ] ; then
      . ~/.x11
   fi

(Well, in fact it's more complicated because it contains more
stuff, but that doesn't matter here ;-))

> Thanks,
> Adam

Ciao,
Thomas

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