Rik Griffin (riscbsd@CHEESEY.DEMON.CO.UK) wrote:

> If I type:
> 
> xterm -display cheesey.demon.co.uk
> 
> on a remote machine, do I need to set a DISPLAY variable ?

No. The -display switch overrides the current value of the DISPLAY
variable.

Tom

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