On 15 June 2010 08:18, Gregor Best <g...@ring0.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:50:40PM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: >> [...] >> That > *is* somewhat unusual >> [...] > > Where exactly is the difference between running > > DISPLAY=foo:0.0 bar > > on a remote machine via ssh as opposed to running the very same command > from an xterm on the remote machine?
There won't be a difference. The client will attempt to connect to the X server on port 6000 on host foo in both cases. A difference would be if you would omit the DISPLAY setting, then it would connect to the X forwarded port presumably. Kind regards, Anselm
