On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us 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.
I don't know why the session on the first console wouldn't be :0.0, but I'd consider any X application that cared what display it uses to be badly broken. I'm much more likely to run things in a freenx/NX session than on the main console (if there even is one).
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com