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


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: check whether emacs session is running under local X server
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:10:23 -0700
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Roland Winkler wrote:

> 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.


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