[X-Unix] Tiger X11.app and xforwarding in ssh

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Kent Behrends assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 1. Start X11.app
|    - it should open up an xterm window (do not use terminal.app)
| 
| 2. Verify DISPLAY is set:
| ozma:~ printenv DISPLAY
| :0.0
| 
| 3. ssh to linux box:
| ozma:~ kent$ ssh -X www.host.com
| kent at my.host.com's password:
| 
| 4. Verify DISPLAY is set:
| [kent at host kent]$ printenv DISPLAY
| localhost:10.0
| 
| 5. Start an X application:
| [kent at fishbonemkt kent]$ xclock &
| [2] 1308

Ok I think I have narrowed down my problem. The xterm works fine and
forwards everything. I was having problems with  terminal.app and iterm
before. I could be wrong, but I could have sworn that x11 forwarding worked
with both terminal.app and iterm before. Using terminal.app the display
isn't set when the application starts (step 2 up there). If I set it to
':0.0' then it also forwards the x11 stuff correctly.  Thanks Kent, for
getting me on the right track.

I suppose I can just set the 'DISPLAY' environment variable in the bashrc
to fix x11 forwarding with the other OS X based terminalesk applications.

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