On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2000, Francois Pons wrote:
> 
> > skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Just wondering if anyone knows a way to force Xconfigurator(XFDrake) to
> > > run in text mode in an xterm. I know it does run in text mode in console
> > > so there is a text mode. 
> > 
> > unset DISPLAY
> > XFdrake
> 
> don't forget to set DISPLAY back after you run XFdrake. If you don't want
> to do that, run:
> 
> DISPLAY="" XFdrake
> 
> or, from non-bourne shells:
> env DISPLAY="" XFdrake
> 
> (not exactly unsetting this, but Xlib ignores an emtpy DISPLAY variavle.
> It worked last time I tried).
> 
> With Xconfigurator I remember something like:
> Xconfigurator -- :1
> also worked (telling it to use display :0 explicitly), but it was a while
> ago, and I'm not exactly sure.
> 
> 
ok thanks it works, so unset DISPLAY is a shell environment command that i
could put in my .bashrc if I wanted text mode for everything? or will it
screw up some things?


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