On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:41:00AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 08:05:50 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > Currently have this.
> > ev () { /usr/bin/evince "$@" & }
> >
> > DISPLAY is set in .bashrc now. Not needed in trivial functions.
>
> Why are you setting the DISPLAY variable? That sounds like a really
> bad idea. Or, at best, it's only viable in a very specialized setup.To be more explicit: in the "normal" case, your Xinit (or your desktop environment) sets that variable. Everything starting from there will inherit it. You want to set it - if you want things to happen in some other display (you'll need access to that one, a whole different story) - if you are starting things from "outside" (e.g. DISPLAY=:0 xeyes & will start xeyes even called from a Linux console or from an ssh session, if other stars align) Cheers -- tomás
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