Re: Setting DISPLAY on the screen shell

2006-08-20 Thread Paul Dunne
JCA, Well, it's clunky, but... could you not alter whatever init file is run on the remote host, so that it writes the information you need to a file or environment variable before you start screen on that host? I'm presuming you're not using screen as the login shell on the remote host. Assumin

Re: Setting DISPLAY on the screen shell

2005-08-04 Thread Phil!Gregory
* JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 11:49 -0700]: > When I establish a connection by means of ssh, from a host A to a > host B, I can use the output from the 'who am i' command in B so that > in the shell created in B by the connection, the DISPLAY variable is > set so that the output from X co

Setting DISPLAY on the screen shell

2005-08-04 Thread JCA
When I establish a connection by means of ssh, from a host A to a host B, I can use the output from the 'who am i' command in B so that in the shell created in B by the connection, the DISPLAY variable is set so that the output from X commands in B is sent to A. Indeed, a typical output from 'who