I wanted to capture the X11 DISPLAY value that shows on the console when 'startx &' in invoked and successful. I've tried:
startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY\= >/tmp/xwin.txt & startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY >/tmp/xwin.txt & but neither worked. I could check files in /tmp/.X11-unix/* for date, owner, etc, and hope that the newest one is the right one and extract the number from the name, however if another user started an X window in the meantime I'd get the wrong DISPLAY v alue. Is there a preferred standard way to get this value? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
