<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:09 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">As long as there is documentation that's not contradicted/superseded by more recent/authoritative documents and that states that the 1st element of $DISPLAY refers to the X server host, using that information in code may not be the most future-proof way of doing things, but it might be the only way of doing things.</blockquote></div><br>I suggest you read what I sent earlier, and think about it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Or, you can blindly assume that what works on Linux now comprises a standards document with universal applicability, because Linux is clearly the only OS that matters. After all, the current folks in charge of xorg certainly believe it....<br clear="all"><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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