On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:58, Laurence J. Lane wrote:
> Some X apps and window managers accept a "-display" command line
> option. Some use "--display". All appear to honor the DISPLAY
> environmental variable.

-display and --display is just fancy features some apps like to support ... 
it's cool, keeps you from having to mess around with environment 
variables ...

as for the DISPLAY variable, not honouring it is a horrible oversight :)
like you said, all appear to honor it ... as they should ...
-mike

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