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Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:49:21 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Earle F. Philhower III wrote:

> The started
> app sees all ENV variables that XWin.exe saw at startup, so if you set
> your DISPLAY before starting XWin you don't need the -display x.x.x.x:y.y
> options.

Don't rely on that. At our company many people are using just XWin and no 
startup scripts (were using it to connect to a compute server). There is
no DISPLAY variable set.

And you don't know if the Microsoft Services for Unix will preset DISPLAY
so some very strange value *g*

bye
	ago 
-- 
 Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 
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