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. -- Joakim Ziegler - Supervisor de postproducción - Terminal joakim at terminalmx.com - 044 55 2971 8514 - 5264 0864