On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger 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 ... I need to clarify things, correct my misstatements. e itself has no problem with using $DISPLAY. The problem is passing -display to other apps. If the other app chokes on the unknow arg, X exits abruptly. I have the menus doing: eesh -e 'restart_wm <WM>' The current screen.c translates the call to: exec <WM> -display <DISPLAY> The patched screen.c does: DISPLAY=<DISPLAY> exec <WM> I believe that is correct behavior, if not the best way to code it. I am not sure if e changes DISPLAY in the environment to match any value e itself received it throuh -display. But the patched method assures that e's notion of DISPLAY is passed to WM. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
