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

[Dima Ryazanov]

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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