Re: check whether emacs session is running under local X server

[Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu> writes:
>> 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.

Thanks a lot! It seems that this is exactly what I was looking for.

Roland