[GNC] X Forwarding starts session on remote machine?

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Sun Dec 30 08:23:20 EST 2018


Check $DISPLAY

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On December 30, 2018 7:45:28 AM Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 11:30, Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why is GNUCash ignoring the $DISPLAY variable when I'm logged in on discus?
>>
>
> I did a little bit more digging this evening and have had some success:
>
> gnucash --display="$DISPLAY"
>
> Behaves as expected and forwards the display to the ssh tunnel, just like
> xeyes, xlogo, google-chrome, etc do without needing to specify the display.
>
> I have since noticed that other gnome apps also require me to force the
> display with --display="$DISPLAY"
>
> Is there some other environment variable that's causing this?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew.
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