Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:21:46 +0200 (CEST)
+ "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>:
> On 07/04/2008, Dushan Mitrovich <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
That is all good and fine so long as you start your X11 programs from
within other X11 programs such as xterm, your .xinitrc or window
manager etc., but a bit more difficult if you wish to start them from
Terminal, say, or a standalone app that you launch using Finder,
Quicksilver etc.
Back when I was running Tiger, I did set DISPLAY=:0 in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. It never caused any difficulty (until I
upgraded to Leopard and discovered I had to remove it), but then I
never ran more than one instance of X11 on my laptop anyhow.
- Harald
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