That's awesome! I can take the DISPLAY=... trickery out of my
.profile and I no longer have to train coworkers about the DISPLAY
variable! I just checked, and without my DISPLAY junk in my .profile,
it's set to /tmp/launch-zk0BPF/:0
Its great until you have a program that assumes that the string that
comes before the :0 is a valid hostname and tries to resolve it, e.g.:
~ > ds9
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for /tmp/launch-MYoUjW/:
6000: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "/tmp/
launch-MYoUjW/:0"
Error in startup script: invalid command name "option"
while executing
"option add {*Entry*BorderWidth} 1"
(file "./zvfsmntpt/src/ds9.tcl" line 10)
Futzing with the DISPLAY variable can have unexpected results.
Jamie
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