<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:50 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Come to think of it, I can't (or maybe, refuse to) see a good, compelling reason why a local X11 server would have to use a non-human-readable $DISPLAY spec if it can be identified uniquely through :0 (or :1, :2 etc for subsequent instances).</blockquote></div><br>Again: your argument is with Apple for inventing launchd and possibly jeremyhu for making xquartz use it. Nut this is a thoroughly Linux-like argument to my mind; you can't think of a reason, therefore it's flawed as designed. And Linux goes through waves of "why did anyone do that stupid thing?<br>*removes it* *several years of it ain't that simple, dummy!* *reinvents the original fix, sometimes worse* "why did anyone do that stupid thing?" with great regularity, because Everyone Knows Better and *nobody learns*.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>The simple reason to why Linux does it one way and OS X another, however, is that on Linux X11 is primary and gets "naming rights". on OS X, it is an interloper and does not get to choose for itself how the system it's on works or what system names it's allowed to use.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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