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I'm running Lubuntu 13.04 using lightdm as my login environment.

If I'm logged in to the graphical session and start my process, everything is groovy. But if I start the process remotely (ssh session), it tries to draw a window through ssh, and fails. I need it to draw the window locally (on the physically attached terminal). How can do I this?

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  • Not sure if I understand correctly your question, but I guess that export DISPLAY might be your friend.
    – b13n1u
    Jan 31, 2015 at 22:27

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X-server where xclients are connected are defined by DISPLAY variable. For first local Xserver it's usually :0.0. So - if you're logged remotly for machine with local Xserver, and you're want to run something locally - set: export DISPLAY=:0.0 and then run your Xclient application - it'll connect to /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and run localy.

But - if you wish to skip ssh forwarding and run xwindow application remotly without ssh - you can do it too - you must open Xserver to accept remote connections, add xclient using xhost, and then define variable DISPLAY to ip:xserwer

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