[PATCH wayland] RFC: Require WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set instead of using wayland-0 as the default

[Jasper St. Pierre]

I'm for it as well.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dima Ryazanov <dima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bringing this up again. What do you guys think? Does it make sense to push
> this change?
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Dima Ryazanov <dima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> (Oops, sent too soon by accident.)
>>
>> Yep, DISPLAY always needs to be set - and I figured, there's a reason it
>> is that way, so that's actually why I thought it made sense to use the same
>> convention for WAYLAND_DISPLAY.
>>
>> Also, regarding Bill's first comment: yeah, that certainly works, but it
>> feels like a workaround. It only gets more complicated if the app supports
>> more backends - framebuffer, etc.
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Dima Ryazanov <dima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep, DISPLAY always needs to be set - and I figured, there's a reason
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 26 May 2015 10:40:15 +0100
>>>> Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > On 26 May 2015 at 10:26, Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> > > 2015-05-26 12:21 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>:
>>>> > >> I have a vague recollection this has been proposed before, but I
>>>> > >> can't
>>>> > >> remember if there was any interest or discussion, nor what was the
>>>> > >> original intent behind defaulting to "wayland-0".
>>>> >
>>>> > Probably to match X11's behaviour of using :0 in the absence of a
>>>> > $DISPLAY.
>>>>
>>>> Really? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> $ export -n DISPLAY
>>>> $ xterm
>>>> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
>>>> xterm: DISPLAY is not set
>>>>
>>>> Geany and gqview fail to start, and konsole segfaults (lol).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> pq
>>>
>>>
>>
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  Jasper