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Re: 2.1.1 and xterm

Right, that's the way it has to work, since there's no way for an X11 process that runs later to affect environment variables like DISPLAY in existing processes like your terminals and the Finder (or any other process that isn't a child of itself). This socket and environment variable is set up by launchd when you log in (each user gets a different one), and it is inherited by all your user processes. I'm sorry our efforts to explain things were less effective than they might have been, but glad that this makes sense now! :)

	-Jim

On Dec 17, 2007, at 14:37, John Koren wrote:
I just rebooted my system and I can see that DISPLAY is set to /tmp/ launch-xxxxx/:0 even though I have not started X11 yet. Clearly it must be launchd during the bootup (and not the X11 server) that sets the DISPLAY. I think it all makes sense now.

Thanks for the pointer, Rob.

-John 

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