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

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue May 26 02:59:49 PDT 2015


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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