From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>
To: arnold@infographix.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
Cc: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: 9term and $DISPLAY
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:06:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96Aug20.000655edt.12690@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:45:34 EDT." <9608192345.AA20485@infographix.com>
arnold@infographix.com (Arnold D. Robbins) writes:
| Should 9term be putting the current display (from -display) into
| the environment? I find it frustrating to start up a 9term from a remote
| machine to my local one (I have scripts and stuff from 9menu to do it)
| and have to set my DISPLAY each time so I can run sam or other things.
|
| Any reason not to? It seems that xterm does, for whatever that's worth.
It definately should. I've been running with this (in display.c)
for a long time now:
setenv("DISPLAY", XDisplayString(_dpy), 1);
I thought I sent out patches for that, but maybe I forgot.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-20 4:07 UTC|newest]
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1996-08-19 23:45 Arnold D. Robbins
1996-08-20 4:06 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
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