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I've got a Raspberry Pi connected to my TV, with no mouse or keyboard.
I'm sshing into it, starting X and then I want to launch VLC (or any other GUI program, for that matter). If I ssh -X, that will open the program in the computer I'm sshing from, not on the TV.
How can I launch a program and make it appear on the TV?
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Slightly less typing than Joachim's (and actually slightly different behavior):
DISPLAY=:0 vlc
This doesn't actually set the DISPLAY variable to :0 for the whole shell session, only passes it to vlc.
So:
If you want to start other X programs in that session after VLC, Joachim's is better.
If you just want to run VLC ASAP, this is faster by 9 keypresses. :)
(I wanted to add this only as a comment, but I didn't have enough points for that, sorry.)
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The DISPLAY environment variable needs to have a value set to which display the program should be opened. If you set it to :0, it means the first local screen.
This should in other words open vlc on the first local screen;
export DISPLAY=:0 ; vlc
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