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linuxsshdesktoptty

Start program from terminal tty to desktop session.

I log in a remote computer trought ssh session, this computer is a Desktop computer and it have an user in the desktop, ¿how can i start a program (like skype) in the terminal and starts in the desktop?. Thanks

Solution

  • If the user on the remote desktop computer did a xhost + you could try:

    # in bash, executed on remote computer
DISPLAY=`hostname`:0 skype

# or e.g. in csh:
env DISPLAY=`hostname`:0 skype