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Re: Find the display



On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:52:09PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to restart sawfish.
> 
> I use : sawfish-client -f restart
> 
> But the postinst say:
> 
> can't connect to display: -f
> 
> Indeed DISPLAY is always empty.
> 
> I really need to call sawfish-client with display.
> 
> I can't use display=:0.0 because this doesn't work if display <> :0.0
> 
> This doesn't work if I call sawfish-client with su $user, where $user is taken
> from a ps.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
Your best bet is to find out if it already supports this, and if not
add it

Make the HUP or USR1 signal restart it
then you can just killall -USR1 sawfish and watch them all go for it

Frank aka Myth (irc)

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