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twm and setting $DISPLAY

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From: Tim Veatch
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:51
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I sometimes use the twm's root menu to open up various
xterm's.  I would have twm executing on my local host
and in my .login file the following to set my $DISPLAY
properly:

	#
	#  Figure out who we are logged in from, to set Xwindow DISPLAY properly.
	#
	if (! $?DISPLAY ) then
   	set whoami = `who am i`
   	if ( $?whoami ) then
      	set rhost = `echo $whoami | sed "s/.*(//" | sed "s/).*//"`
      	setenv DISPLAY "$rhost":0
      	echo "Setting DISPLAY to $rhost":0
      	unset rhost
   	endif
   	unset whoami
	endif

Now my problem: to reduce my charges, I now have twm executing
on a remote machine.  Does anyone know a good way to set
my $DISPLAY?

My apologies if this in the wrong group to post such a request.
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Subject: twm and setting $DISPLAY
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