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I have an issue for which the work around would be to start the application in X instead of headless. How do I make sure the app is executed on the desktop, even if I run the command from a remote ssh connection.

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You can use the DISPLAY environment variable to start a GUI program on the remote computer. However, it is not shown to you, but rather opens on the active X-session with address :0, which is the default for the first X-session. To enable, use

export DISPLAY=:0

For more information, see this post.

If you also want to see it, use ssh -X to log on that computer. For more information, see this relevant post.

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