Setting of DISPLAY Variable

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Frank-M Mohr wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm currently testing OpenSSH_2.9p2 on AIX.
>
> Is there any reason why the hostname is used for the DISPLAY
> variable instead of localhost?

IIRC some broken X server detect "localhost" in $DISPLAY and force
the use of a Unix socket.

-d

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