Re: 2.1.1 and xterm
Re: 2.1.1 and xterm
- Subject: Re: 2.1.1 and xterm
- From: Jim Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:54:14 -0600
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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