Permanent Display variable

[Kevin_194]

Would like to know how to change the display variable permanently. Thanks

[Evert Jan van Ramselaar · Accepted solution]

You could add this to your .profile:

DISPLAY=hostname:0
export DISPLAY

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

The DISPLAY variable is specific to each user ie it's dependent on which system you login from.

If you always login from the same PC/Laptop & it has a fixed IP address then you can set the DISPLAY variable in the .profile in your home directory.

Cheers
Con

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

You can add this two lines to your $HOME/.profile

DISPLAY=`who am i -u | cut -c52-`:0
export DISPLAY

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Zigor

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Kevin,

Add this to your .profile

# -- Do trick to set the display in case of remote login
HOST=`who am i -R |awk '{print $NF}' | sed "s/(\(.*\))/\1/"`
if [ "$HOST" != "" ] && [ "$HOST" != ":0" ] && [ "$HOST" != ":0.0" ];
then
if [ "$HOST" = `who am i -R |awk '{print $NF}' | sed "s/(\(.*\))/\1/"` ]
then
HOST=$HOST:0.0
fi
echo " +--<<"
echo " | Remote login detected, setting DISPLAY to $HOST"
echo " +-->>"
DISPLAY=$HOST
export DISPLAY
fi


Robert-Jan.

[Sarvesh A Dhuri]

Hi !

I guess its depends upon the users PCs IP address . if is having one pc for his work , u can edit his .profile & add export DISPLAY=IP:0.0

where IP address will be users PCs IP address

[blal]

Hi

U can use the following entry in /etc/profile

export DISPLAY=`who am i -R | cut -c40-52`:0.0

regds,
Baiju