I don't think prompts is what he was asking about, nor does he have to use ssh (although this would be preferrable). I've seen this done using some shell commands in a .cshrc or .profile file that is called after login.
Here are shell scripts that I found you can source or place in your .cshrc or .profile. Modify them as necessary: ---------------------------------- C Shell version: ---------------------------------- #!/bin/csh -f # Script to set the DISPLAY variable for login sessions. # To use this script, put the line "source /usr/local/bin/setdisplay.csh" # in your .login file. # set UNAME = `uname` if ( $?DISPLAY ) then echo "DISPLAY $DISPLAY via environment" else if ( $term =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) then # kludge to handle setting of DISPLAY variable for X. Requires use of # 'xrlogin' to work. setenv DISPLAY `echo $term | sed -e 's/.*@//'` set term = `echo $term | sed 's/@.*//'` echo "DISPLAY $DISPLAY via xrlogin" else if ( $term == "xterm" || $term == "aixterm" || $term == "aixterm-m" || $term == "sun-cmd" ) then # Even worse kludge. Does not work for X terminals. # Only node is usually valid, rest is truncated if ( $UNAME != IRIX64 ) then set xwhence = `who am i | sed -n -e 's/^.*(\([^.)]*\).*$/\1/p'` else set xwhence = `w -h | sed -n -e '/'$USER'/s/^[^A-Z]*\([A-Z]*[^\.]\).*/\1/p' | head -1` endif if ( $xwhence == '' ) then echo "DISPLAY cannot be set via who am i" unsetenv DISPLAY else setenv DISPLAY $xwhence:0 if ( $UNAME != IRIX64 ) then echo "DISPLAY $DISPLAY via who am i" else echo "DISPLAY $DISPLAY via w, WRONG if from Xterminal" endif endif unset xwhence else echo "DISPLAY not set, term is $term" endif ---------------------------------------- Bourne/Korn Shell version: ----------------------------------------- #!/bin/ksh # # to use this script, put the line "source /usr/local/bin/setdisplay" # in your .login file. if [ $DISPLAY ]; then echo "DISPLAY $DISPLAY via environment" else if [ ! -z "`echo $TERM | grep '@'`" ]; then # kludge to handle setting of DISPLAY variable for X. Requires use of # 'xrlogin' to work. DISPLAY=`echo $TERM | sed 's/.*@//'` TERM=`echo $TERM | sed 's/@.*//'` export DISPLAY TERM echo DISPLAY $DISPLAY via xrlogin else if [ $TERM = xterm -o $TERM = aixterm -o $TERM = aixterm-m -o $TERM = sun-cmd ]; then # even worse kludge. Does not work for X terminals. xwhence=`who am i | sed -n -e 's/^.*(\([^.)]*\).*$/\1/p'`; if [ $xwhence = '' ]; then echo "DISPLAY cannot be set via who am i" DISPLAY= else DISPLAY=$xwhence:0; echo DISPLAY $DISPLAY via who am i; fi export DISPLAY xwhence= fi fi fi ------------------------------ Good luck! :) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]