Re: Respecting standard X options (diatribe)



"David T. Bath" wrote:
<snip>
> So how do I nicely kick off processes aimed at other displays?  If you
> say "shell out, set DISPLAY and then invoke the program" I'll respond:

If you run :

  [me beta]$ DISPLAY=alpha:0.0 /opt/gnome/bin/sol &

then this should work. This overrides $DISPLAY only for the current
command.

HTH,

Gareth
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