[Cialug] SSH annoyance

[Nathan Stien]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
> wrote:

>
> I think the problem has to do with the DISPLAY variable. The SSH that
> comes with Lenny mangles that variable in an odd way. On my local
> machine, DISPLAY is set to ":0.0". When i ssh to somewhere else it is
> set to something like "localhost:10.0". But with each new connection to
> a remote machine, the "10" is incremented. I no longer have a machine
> with X and the old SSH available to me to see what the older (correct)
> behavior is.


I think this is the only behavior I've ever known about, and I've been doing
X11 over ssh for about 9 years.
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