[Xquartz-dev] I am having problems with 2.7.5_rc3 and _rc4 (rc2 & before were ok)

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Nov 12 13:04:47 PST 2013


On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:52, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:

> 
> Am 12.11.2013 um 14:40 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> 
>> Where exactly do you personally (have to) use that path to the socket?
> 
> Nowhere.
> 
>> Why do you care at all about what that environment variable looks like?
> 
> Because in the shells of X clients and non-X11 applications DISPLAY is set to different values.

Not exactly.

processes spawned from xinit have the :<display number> value.  All other processes have the path to the socket.

They both refer to the same server though, so I don't see why it matters to you.

--Jeremy


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