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From: Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: check whether emacs session is running under local X server
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:10:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <icodt0okxs.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m38xk5yqie.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de

Roland Winkler wrote:

> In my .emacs I would like to distinguish between an emacs session
> running under the local X server and an emacs session running under
> a remote X server. I expect that the $DISPLAY variable can do the
> job. But I am not familiar with the details.
> (Once upon a time I set $DISPLAY manually. Nowadays I use ssh which
> handles $DISPLAY for me, but I do not understand the scheme it uses.)

I just check whether the SSH_CLIENT environment variable is set or
not.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 20:59 check whether emacs session is running under local X server Roland Winkler
2006-09-27 22:39 ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found] ` <mailman.7518.1159397614.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-27 23:44   ` Roland Winkler
2006-09-28  3:10     ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-09-28  1:10 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2006-09-28  1:56   ` Roland Winkler
2006-09-28  3:12   ` Eric Hanchrow

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