[Gllug] automagic DISPLAYs

[Nix]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Simon Trimmer yowled:
> On 19 Sep 2001, Nix wrote:
>> A better thing to do is just to leave DISPLAY alone through all your
>> telnets and sshes; things will just work then (except that you have to
>> get X authentication set up properly).
> 
> except by default DISPLAY ends up as ":0.0"

Set it to `foo:0.0' where the host on which the X server is running is
`foo', and it should know where to talk to.

> Considering the test machine has a few hundred gig of disk perhaps I
> shouldn't care about wasting some?

Of course you should ;}

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