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Permanently set export DISPLAY= environment variable
Hi,
I did a HD upgrade and factory reset recently and managed to tweak out my config all the way back to where I was except for this, and it's driving me nuts.
I can't figure out where to permanently set
Now, every time I remote in with Putty and want to fire up gnome-commander, I have to do above manually per session.
My Google Fu is failing me.
I'm sure I just have to nano the above line into a file somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where.
ReadyNas Ultra 2
RAIDiator 4.2.26
Thanks!
I did a HD upgrade and factory reset recently and managed to tweak out my config all the way back to where I was except for this, and it's driving me nuts.
I can't figure out where to permanently set
export DISPLAY=my.local.ip.address:0
Now, every time I remote in with Putty and want to fire up gnome-commander, I have to do above manually per session.
My Google Fu is failing me.
I'm sure I just have to nano the above line into a file somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where.
ReadyNas Ultra 2
RAIDiator 4.2.26
Thanks!
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- Add it to .bashrc in your home directory. Lines in there are executed when you login.
- forgive my ignorance, but are there any other steps.
I opened a Putty session and went to /home. There was no .bashrc file previous, so I created one with;
nano .bashrc
I entered the command as per above and saved. Rebooted the NAS and opened a new Putty session. No dice...
Thanks again. - Not the /home directory, but the home directory for your user
This normally would be the default directory when you login.
So if you have changed the working directory you could do
# cd
However if you really want to make sure you are changing to the home directory for the user you are logged in as do e.g.
# cd ~
You can also see the home directory in /etc/passwd
e.g.
MDGM-NAS:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep "/root"
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
For the root user it is /root
So alternatively you could do e.g.
# cd /root - Ya, for the most part, its going to be /root on the NAS, unless you created other accounts and enabled a shell for them. So look at /root/.bashrc first.
- Boom - that did it!
Thanks chirpa and mdgm for being explicitly clear - exactly what I needed. I had this information at one point in my ReadyNAS administration life, but leave it alone long enough and it slipped away, haha!
Thanks again.
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