Re: setting enviornment variables for parent process

If this is to be run from a .cshrc then will the perl script also be executing any X applications? If so then setting the DISPLAY environment variable within the script is fine:

$ENV{DISPLAY}="$grab:0.0";
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Otherwise why use a perl script to export the value of $DISPLAY?

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RE: Re: setting enviornment variables for parent process by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2000 at 21:03 UTC
Mainly I'm just trying to learn perl as I have no programming experience at all. Also I was just trying to figure out a way so that users wouldn't have to type setenv DISPLAY 'theirhost:0.0' everytime they telnetted into the server. I tried ssh which works great as far as that respect but for really intesive X applications like Arcview and Arcinfo the encryption causes some major lag and hangups when moving or resizing windows.	[reply]
RE: RE: Re: setting enviornment variables for parent process by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2000 at 04:20 UTC
I suspect the encryption can be disabled for ssh. Consider doing this on an as-needed basis.	[reply]