Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: rxvt sets DISPLAY without X11 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:38:01 -0700 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <200309051016.MAA13389@r2d2.physik3.gwdg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en,ru In-Reply-To: Rolf Campbell wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Hans Werner Strube wrote: >> >>> If rxvt is used from the login shell outside X11, without XWin >>> running and /tmp/.X11-unix/ empty, it nevertheless sets DISPLAY to >>> ':0'. This even happens if rxvt is started directly from a Windows >>> shortcut: >>> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login Does this have a special >>> meaning or is it a bug? >> >> rxvt does not set DISPLAY for me. You must be setting it somewhere >> else (Windows environment variables perhaps?) > > It does set it for me. And it is RXVT that sets it. > > RXVT: > /home/rcampbell> set | grep DISPLAY > DISPLAY=:0 > /home/rcampbell> > > > WINNT console: > /home/rcampbell> set | grep DISPLAY > /home/rcampbell> Open mouth and insert foot! Mea Cupla! It does for me too. I just failed to check. I assumed that if DISPLAY was set and I did an rxvt from within the rxvt that it would only work if DISPLAY was unset or it pointed to a running X Server. Yet I can rxvt from within an rxvt without X and get another rxvt. Sorry I should have checked. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/