Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:58:48 -0400
On 07/04/2008, Dushan Mitrovich <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> I found one error I made: it should be DISPLAY=:0. After that the
> >> command worked.
> >
> > NO. Never set DISPLAY on Leopard. Just use the environment variable
> > that is set for you by launchd.
>
>
> I have Tiger.11, not Leopard. Does this admonition still apply?
Yes. In any X-based system, it is never a good idea to set DISPLAY
in your .profile / .bashrc / .cshrc, because you never know which
display you might end up being connected to.
(In mostly one-user-at-a-time workstations like MacOS X or Linux
this might not be obvious, but in the old days where you would
just walk to a random X terminal in a room to log in to begin your
X session this would have been quite obvious.)
--
cheers,
-ambrose
The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
idiots. So SAD... (Sites that does spam filtering on mails sent to the
abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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