OT: Re: No GNOME Sound Events When in Run-Level 5

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Can anyone tell me what exactly the "DISPLAY=localhost.localdomain:0.0"
function actually does and how I would go about configuring it? Thanks!


Darryl

John Kodis wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:28:15PM -0400, Bruce W. Bigby wrote:
>
> > I suppose that, if I wanted to set the DISPLAY variable, I should have
> > done something like this:
> >
> > DISPLAY=localhost.localdomain:0.0
> >
> > Would that suffice? I don't feel like testing it now. It's late and my
> > wife wants a foot massage; later.  :-)
>
> If all your applications will be running on the same machine as the X
> server, as is normally the case, just use "DISPLAY=:0.0".  This allows
> the X server to select the best available transport (typically shared
> memory or Unix domain sockets).
>
> -- John Kodis.
>
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