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Re: ssh -X --display localhost:0.0


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Biju G C wrote:

>  --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha<at>cs<dot>nyu<dot>edu> wrote:

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replies.  Let's not make the spam harvesters' job any easier.

> > This is a shell programming question (I use the terms "shell" and
> > "programming" loosely, since you're asking about the cmd.exe shell), and
> > as such is off-topic for this list.
> > Since I'm sending this anyway, you *can* do it in bash like this:
> > DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X userid@myserver.com
> > I believe "set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X userid@myserver.com" will do
> > a similar thing in cmd.exe (not quite, but close).
>
> Thanks,
> my actual requirement was to run ssh using ShellExecuteEx
> The above method means i have run an extra "cmd.exe"
> which I wanted to avoid.
>
> Any way ShellExecuteEx with following argument is working
> SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpFile as "cmd.exe"
> SHELLEXECUTEINFO.lpParameters and as
> "/c set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 & ssh -X userid@server"

Getting further and further off-topic...

Just set DISPLAY in your environment (using the Windows' equivalent of
putenv()) before calling ShellExecuteEx()...

Also, why not use CreateProcess() and pass in your environment settings
explicitly?
	Igor
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