how to make the display set by default

[Corne Beerse]

admin g wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   Whenever I connect to vnc server I always have to give setenv DISPLAY
>ipaddr of local system:1.0 in the terminal to get the display, is there any
>option to set this permanently ,some where in like xstartup file or some
>thing.Please guide me ..........
>  
>

That depends on a lot of things. Most likely, somewhere in your login 
scripts there is a less than perfect way to update the $DISPLAY...

Then it depends on how you start your vnc-session (the server side, not 
the viewer side) and how you start the  applications in there. If you 
use the `vncserver` script, that provides a reasonable example on how to 
set the $DIAPLAY. If you start `xvnv` in an own script, peek in the 
`vncserver` script.

If you start xvnc in an other way, see it as any other X11 server  like 
xorg or xfree86. It even uses the same defaults (like localhost:0.0 for 
default display) On some locations I have replaced the local X11 server  
with xvnc and it all works as expected. I had to add some vnc-specific 
options and that was it.


Regards

CBee