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Re: X11 capturing DISPLAY value
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: wynfield at gmail dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:33:08 +0000
- Subject: Re: X11 capturing DISPLAY value
- References: <20130311081754.2260@binki>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 10/03/2013 22:17, wynfield@gmail.com wrote:
> I wanted to capture the X11 DISPLAY value that shows on the console when 'startx &' in invoked and successful. I've tried:
>
> startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY\= >/tmp/xwin.txt &
> startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY >/tmp/xwin.txt &
>
> but neither worked. I could check files in /tmp/.X11-unix/* for date, owner, etc, and hope that the newest one is the right one and extract the number from the name, however if another user started an X window in the meantime I'd get the wrong DISPLAY v
> alue.
>
> Is there a preferred standard way to get this value?
If you cannot explicitly specify a display number, I would say, use the
'-displayfd' X server option [1], for example:
xinit -- -displayfd 3 3>~/.display
export DISPLAY=:`cat ~/.display`
Unfortunately, while this works with xinit, it seems there are bugs not
noticed until now which prevents this from working correctly with startx
(startx ends up supplying both :display and -displayfd, which doesn't work
correctly, and the xauthority generated may reference the wrong display
number, leaving clients unable to connect)
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-terminal-server.html
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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