Re: DISPLAY environment variable

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:09 PM +0300, Alexander Koptelov 
<steve@kazbek.ispras.ru> wrote:
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| Behavior of my X is very strange. It sets =DISPLAY= variable to value
| ``unix:0.0''. I have no idea who made it (gdm, gnome or enlightenment)
| but more likely (I think) it's gdm problem. Can you tell me how to set
| =DISPLAY= properly (``:0'')?
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"unix:0" is legal (if old-fashioned) and means the same thing as ":0".  If 
you have something which is confused by this then it is broken.

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