Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
> >
> > > The started
> > > app sees all ENV variables that XWin.exe saw at startup, so if you set
> > > your DISPLAY before starting XWin you don't need the -display x.x.x.x:y.y
> > > options.
> >
> > Don't rely on that. At our company many people are using just XWin and no
> > startup scripts (were using it to connect to a compute server). There is
> > no DISPLAY variable set.
> >
> > And you don't know if the Microsoft Services for Unix will preset DISPLAY
> > so some very strange value *g*
> >
> > bye
> >         ago
>
> Two small notes here:
> 1) You can actually call setenv("DISPLAY", value) inside the XWin process,
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Umm, make that {char buf[80]="DISPLAY=";putenv(strcat(buf,value));}
Sorry.  The point remains, however.

> which will be inherited by XWin's children.
> 2) You can pass an explicit environment pointer to execl (well, execle,
> actually).
>
> Either way, you don't have to rely on the outside environment.
>         Igor

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