I have my partner's new MBP. Is this how you check for DISPLAY?

joan-schotts-MacBook-Pro:~ brianschott$echo $DISPLAY
-bash: /tmp/launch-djf5z2/org.x:0


On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Charles Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:31 AM, bill lam wrote:
>
>> DISPLAY is a popular way to check if x11 is running, I'm curious why it is
>> defined if x11 is not running. Or if is always defined in osx?  I'm
>> ignorant here.
>
> Just FYI, my wife's 17" MBP (running Leopard) also has DISPLAY defined. I 
> doubt that X11 has ever been run on that machine.
>
> C.
>
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