On Monday March 26 2018 22:59:26 David Ledger wrote: > inherited or as set by the process. Their values are independent. For a > program to take some action when a variable is read it would have to use > some convention for variable reading, and that could be by-passed.
Ouch, sorry, I keep making that shortcut despite what Jeremy pointed out the other day. It's not the reading of $DISPLAY, it's accessing the socket that is named by its value (when that's the value set by launchd). I'm not familiar with the mechanism so I won't speculate any further (but part of my earlier reasoning must still hold, in a much less invasive manner). This reminds me that at some point in the past I spent more time than I cared in figuring out a reliable way to unset DISPLAY in terminal emulators not running under X11. I can't remember exactly why I did that, but it seems not impossible that it was for related symptoms. R. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
