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| hosea.basis@gmail.com 2005-04-18, 8:47 pm |
| Hi, i noticed that in the setting of display, we have the option of
:0.0
Generally, it is as above. But somehow, i guess that we could change
the last 0 incrementally. Could this be the number of xwindows session
that are available?
Please advise.
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| Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner 2005-04-19, 6:06 pm |
| hosea.basis@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, i noticed that in the setting of display, we have the option of
> :0.0
> Generally, it is as above. But somehow, i guess that we could change
> the last 0 incrementally. Could this be the number of xwindows session
> that are available?
Do 'man X' and look for the section DISPLAY NAMES. The format is
like this: hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
Hostname is, well, hostname. Displaynumber refers to a particular X
server, which I guess is what you are calling an "xwindows session". If
you have more than one X server running on a host, then you would have
more than one display number. The "screen number" refers to a
particular screen belonging to a particular display. I'm sure it's used
sometimes, but I can't remember ever seeing it anything but zero.
Do you have a particular desire or need to change the $DISPLAY
setting, or were you just asking out of curiosity? If you want an
application to appear on a different display, you usually have to change
the display number, not the screen number; ie, the first zero, not the
second. Unless the display is on a different host, in which case it's
probably display 0 on that hostname.
JDW
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| Kevin Collins 2005-04-19, 6:06 pm |
| In article <d43c05$h36$1@reader1.panix.com>, Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner wrote:
> hosea.basis@gmail.com wrote:
>
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> Do 'man X' and look for the section DISPLAY NAMES. The format is
> like this: hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
> Hostname is, well, hostname. Displaynumber refers to a particular X
> server, which I guess is what you are calling an "xwindows session". If
> you have more than one X server running on a host, then you would have
> more than one display number. The "screen number" refers to a
> particular screen belonging to a particular display. I'm sure it's used
> sometimes, but I can't remember ever seeing it anything but zero.
If you run a window manager that supports multiple desktops or workspaces (CDE,
Blackbox, WindowMaker, others) then the screen number represents the different
desktops.
> Do you have a particular desire or need to change the $DISPLAY
> setting, or were you just asking out of curiosity? If you want an
> application to appear on a different display, you usually have to change
> the display number, not the screen number; ie, the first zero, not the
> second. Unless the display is on a different host, in which case it's
> probably display 0 on that hostname.
Kevin
--
Unix Guy Consulting, LLC
Unix and Linux Automation, Shell, PERL and CGI scripting
http://www.unix-guy.com
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| hosea.basis@gmail.com 2005-04-20, 2:59 am |
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Kevin Collins wrote:
> In article <d43c05$h36$1@reader1.panix.com>, Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
wrote:
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> Kevin
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> --
> Unix Guy Consulting, LLC
> Unix and Linux Automation, Shell, PERL and CGI scripting
> http://www.unix-guy.com
Hi
Thanks guys!
Yup, i asked it out of curiosity...
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