So I don't run xdm or gdm, or similar display. I like to come in via regular getty to the virtual console and start up startx on my own. However, I notice now that $DISPLAY is let to localhost:0.0 when I log in, and I'm wondering... why? And where it is set. I would like to turn it off. I don't see this done in any config file in /etc, nor is it in anything in my home directory... I tried strace'ing login and getty to see if they were doing, but I haven't seen it. Are we so tied to X windows now that we can't live without $DISPLAY being set? It's mildly annoying because if I want keychain to work correctly now, I have to test to see if I'm logging in on a virtual console, otherwise it tried to connect to $DISPLAY, which of course, doesn't exist because there is no X server running. keychain isn't smart enough to figure that out, or wants me to set the --nogui option, whatever.
So is there a reason $DISPLAY is set on a virtual console? -- Dale Harris rod...@maybe.org rod...@gmail.com /.-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
