On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Jens Reinsberger wrote: > Nonetheless we were using the runlevel startup scripts to restart lightdm over > a ssh connection which failed while other login managers (namely kdm) did > not. That way you can restart remotely any display manager I know of without > fiddling with the DISPLAY variable. > > Thats why I ask you to accept this bug and maybe change the init script > accordingly in order to ignore the DISPLAY variable. If wanted, I can write up > a small patch which makes the behaviour configurable via > /etc/defaults/lightdm.
DISPLAY is used in legitimate cases. You're free to unset DISPLAY on your specific uses cases, you're even free to edit /etc/init.d/lightdm file, your modifications won't be overwritten by dpkg at the next update. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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