Re: Setting DISPLAY on the screen shell

[Paul Dunne]

JCA,

Well, it's clunky, but... could you not alter whatever init file is run on
the remote host, so that it writes the information you need to a file or
environment variable before you start screen on that host?  I'm presuming
you're not using screen as the login shell on the remote host.

Assuming input of the form:

    UserName      pts/13       Aug  4 11:01 (A.domain.org)

 you could have in .profile (or whatever):

export MYHOST=$(who am i | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/[()]//g' )

And then use MYHOST to set DISPLAY (or indeed set DISPLAY in one go with
a similar command).

Or am I missing something?

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