On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Keith Keller
<kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx
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