on Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:45:40AM -0800, Tom insinuated: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:40:41AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > but how do i find out the name? $DISPLAY is just ":0.0"; $TERM > > says "rxvt" ... if i do an `aterm -name foobar`, is there any way > > i can access the name 'foobar' from within that, by means of > > setting some environment variable or something? > > Why not `name=foobar aterm` ? oh, good call! now, since this is a remote terminal, I just need to get ssh to export and forward that variable. reading the ssh manpage, i see that i can make a file called ~/.ssh/environment, but that won't forward the variables to the new machine. is there any way i can do this? </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DCNO-3267&year=2003 * *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Please help me raise money for AIDS as I train for * * the Whitman-Walker AIDS Marathon! * *------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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