Determine $DISPLAY socket name on OS X 10.6?
- by Nate
I'm looking to do something that's a little odd. I'm SSH'ing from a server to a Snow Leopard client to start an X11 data display process. In other words, SSH's X11 forwarding isn't what I want.
I can do:
client$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-SOMETHING/org.x:0
client$ ls -l $DISPLAY
srwx------ 1 myuser wheel 0 Dec 9 15:47 /tmp/launch-SOMETHING/org.x:0
And, when I do:
server$ ssh myuser@client
client$ export DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-SOMETHING/org.x:0
client$ xterm
I happily get my xterm.
What I need, then, is some way to find out the correct value for $DISPLAY in my ssh session. From what I've read, $DISPLAY is set by launchd, but I haven't found any way to see that value.
If it matters, I know that when my process connects from $server to $client, $client will logged in to the terminal as the same user.
