Re: $DISPLAY set when I log into virtual console
On Mar 27, 12:30 pm, Dale Harris <rod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I do not have this behaviour here, with lenny and bash. Have you
tried to rename ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile to see
if some command in them is setting it as an unintended (to you)
side effect?
Tiago.
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