Re: DISPLAY

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.20.9910270944450.18074-100000@dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se> you write:
>For some reason, my Debian installation has started providing me with a
>DISPLAY variable even in console logins (and when logging in over the serial
>line...), which renders my scripts that use DISPLAY to check whether to fire
>up a X program or a console programs non-working.
>
>Why? And is there any better way to check whether you're actually running X
>or not?

This shouldn't happen.

Check that DISPLAY isn't being set by one of your login scripts.

Are you using screen?

What Debian version are you using slink (stable) or potato (unstable)?
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>