[CentOS] Why is my default DISPLAY suddenly :3.0?
Joakim Ziegler
joakim at terminalmx.com
Fri Apr 26 22:14:12 UTC 2013
On 26/04/13 10:36, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2013-04-26, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on Fedora 6.3. After a reboot, some proprietary software didn't want
>>> to run. I found out that the startup script for said software manually
>>> sets DISPLAY to :0.0, which I know is not a good idea, and I can fix.
>> I'd thought that :0.0 was the norm.
> It is, but it's not a hard and fast rule. If you are running multiple
> local X consoles, for example, they can't all be :0.0. I've also seen
> different identifiers when one X session is hung and/or doesn't finish
> cleanly before a new one is brought up.
> If DISPLAY is consistently set to :3.0, perhaps it is a Fedora-specific
> thing, and it'd be best to ask people more familiar with Fedora. If
> they have made changes, those changes may not have propagated to RHEL/
> CentOS yet.
Sorry, brain fart, I'm running CentOS 6.3, not Fedora. The weird thing
is that this changed after a reboot. I haven't done any updates that
seem relevant lately either.
And yes, I know :0.0 shouldn't be depended on, but it seems weird that
it'd change like that for no good reason.
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